About the Authors

Heesun Shin

Contributed equally to this work with: Heesun Shin, Casey P. Shannon

Affiliations NCE CECR PROOF Centre of Excellence, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, UBC Department of Medicine (Division of Respiratory Medicine), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, UBC James Hogg Research Centre & Institute for HEART + LUNG Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Casey P. Shannon

Contributed equally to this work with: Heesun Shin, Casey P. Shannon

Affiliation NCE CECR PROOF Centre of Excellence, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Nick Fishbane

Affiliations NCE CECR PROOF Centre of Excellence, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, UBC Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Jian Ruan

Affiliations NCE CECR PROOF Centre of Excellence, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, UBC James Hogg Research Centre & Institute for HEART + LUNG Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Mi Zhou

Affiliation NCE CECR PROOF Centre of Excellence, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Robert Balshaw

Affiliations NCE CECR PROOF Centre of Excellence, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, UBC Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Janet E. Wilson-McManus

Affiliation NCE CECR PROOF Centre of Excellence, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Raymond T. Ng

Affiliations NCE CECR PROOF Centre of Excellence, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, UBC Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Bruce M. McManus

Affiliations NCE CECR PROOF Centre of Excellence, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, UBC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, UBC James Hogg Research Centre & Institute for HEART + LUNG Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Scott J. Tebbutt

Scott.Tebbutt@hli.ubc.ca

Affiliations NCE CECR PROOF Centre of Excellence, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, UBC Department of Medicine (Division of Respiratory Medicine), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, UBC James Hogg Research Centre & Institute for HEART + LUNG Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

for the PROOF Centre of Excellence Team

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HS RB RTN SJT. Performed the experiments: JR. Analyzed the data: HS CPS NF MZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JEW-M BMM. Wrote the paper: HS CPS SJT.