About the Authors

Xiujuan Wu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, BC Children’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Child and Family Research Institute, BC Children’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Victoria S. Conlin

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, BC Children’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Child and Family Research Institute, BC Children’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Vijay Morampudi

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, BC Children’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Child and Family Research Institute, BC Children’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Natasha R. Ryz

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, BC Children’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Child and Family Research Institute, BC Children’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Yasmin Nasser

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, BC Children’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Child and Family Research Institute, BC Children’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Ganive Bhinder

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, BC Children’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Child and Family Research Institute, BC Children’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Kirk S. Bergstrom

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, BC Children’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Child and Family Research Institute, BC Children’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Hong B. Yu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, BC Children’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Child and Family Research Institute, BC Children’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Chris C. M. Waterhouse

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Allison M. J. Buchan

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Oana E. Popescu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, BC Children’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

William T. Gibson

Affiliations Child and Family Research Institute, BC Children’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

James A. Waschek

Affiliation Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States of America

Bruce A. Vallance

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, BC Children’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Child and Family Research Institute, BC Children’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Kevan Jacobson

kjacobson@cw.bc.ca

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, BC Children’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Child and Family Research Institute, BC Children’s Hospital and the 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: XW VSC VM KSB AMJB BAV KJ. Performed the experiments: XW VSC VM KSB CW JM YN GB. Analyzed the data: XW VSC VM KSB HBY OP GB KJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WG JAW. Wrote the paper: XW VM NRR GB HBY BAV KJ.