About the Authors

Meghan B. Azad

Contributed equally to this work with: Meghan B. Azad, Yuri Lissitsyn

Affiliation Women and Children's Health Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Yuri Lissitsyn

Contributed equally to this work with: Meghan B. Azad, Yuri Lissitsyn

Affiliation Department of Immunology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Gregory E. Miller

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada

Allan B. Becker

Affiliations Department of Immunology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Kent T. HayGlass

Affiliation Department of Immunology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Anita L. Kozyrskyj

kozyrsky@ualberta.ca

Affiliation Women and Children's Health Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KTH ALK. Performed the experiments: YL. Analyzed the data: MBA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KTH GEM ABB. Wrote the paper: MBA ALK KTH. Critical review of manuscript: GEM ABB. Approval of final manuscript: MBA YL GEM ABB KTH ALK.