About the Authors

Fariba Kolahdooz

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Aboriginal and Global Health Research Group, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Kerry Spearing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Aboriginal and Global Health Research Group, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Sangita Sharma

gita.sharma@ualberta.ca

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Aboriginal and Global Health Research Group, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS. Performed the experiments: KS SS. Analyzed the data: FK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FK. Wrote the paper: FK KS.