About the Authors

Sheila R. Costford

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheila R. Costford, Nihan Kavaslar, Ruth McPherson, Mary-Ellen Harper

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Nihan Kavaslar

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheila R. Costford, Nihan Kavaslar, Ruth McPherson, Mary-Ellen Harper

Affiliation Division of Cardiology and Lipoprotein and Atherosclerosis Research Group, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Nadav Ahituv

Affiliation Genomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Shehla N. Chaudhry

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Wendy S. Schackwitz

Affiliations Genomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America, United States Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Robert Dent

Affiliation Ottawa Hospital Weight Management Clinic, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Len A. Pennacchio

Affiliation Genomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Ruth McPherson

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheila R. Costford, Nihan Kavaslar, Ruth McPherson, Mary-Ellen Harper

Affiliation Division of Cardiology and Lipoprotein and Atherosclerosis Research Group, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Mary-Ellen Harper

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheila R. Costford, Nihan Kavaslar, Ruth McPherson, Mary-Ellen Harper

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Maryellen.Harper@uottawa.ca

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LP RD RM MH. Performed the experiments: SC NK NA SC WS. Analyzed the data: LP RM MH SC NK NA SC WS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LP RD RM MH. Wrote the paper: LP RD RM MH SC NK NA. Other: Designed the study: MH. Wrote the first draft of the paper: MH.