About the Authors

Jeffrey W. Martin

Affiliation Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Susan Chilton-MacNeill

Affiliation Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Madhuri Koti

Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Andre J. van Wijnen

Affiliation Departments of Orthopedic Surgery and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Jeremy A. Squire

jsquireinsp@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Departments of Genetics and Pathology, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto - USP, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil

Maria Zielenska

Affiliation Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MZ JAS AJvW. Performed the experiments: JWM SC-M. Analyzed the data: JWM MK MZ JAS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MZ SC-M JAS. Wrote the paper: JWM SC-M MK AJvW MZ JAS.