About the Authors
- Irina Dinu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Irina Dinu, Surakameth Mahasirimongkol
Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Surakameth Mahasirimongkol
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Contributed equally to this work with: Irina Dinu, Surakameth Mahasirimongkol
Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, School of International Health, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Qi Liu
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Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Hideki Yanai
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Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, School of International Health, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Fukujuji Hospital, Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Kiyose, Japan
- Noha Sharaf Eldin
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Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Erin Kreiter
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Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Xuan Wu
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Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Shahab Jabbari
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Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Katsushi Tokunaga
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Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, School of International Health, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Yutaka Yasui
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* E-mail: yyasui@ualberta.ca
Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: YY ID SM HY. Performed the experiments: YY QL ID SM. Analyzed the data: YY QL ID SM HY NSE EK XW SJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YY QL ID SM HY NSE EK XW. Wrote the paper: YY QL ID SM HY NSE EK XW KT.