About the Authors

Gholamreza Safaee Ardekani

Affiliation Department of Dermatology and Skin Science, Jack Bell Research Centre, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Seyed Mehdi Jafarnejad

Affiliation Department of Dermatology and Skin Science, Jack Bell Research Centre, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Larry Tan

Affiliation Department of Dermatology and Skin Science, Jack Bell Research Centre, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Ardavan Saeedi

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Gang Li

gangli@mail.ubc.ca

Affiliation Department of Dermatology and Skin Science, Jack Bell Research Centre, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GSA SMJ GL. Performed the experiments: GSA LT. Analyzed the data: GSA LT AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS. Wrote the paper: GSA SMJ GL.