About the Authors

Jérôme Lane

Affiliation Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Quebec City, Canada

Stephan F. van Eeden

Affiliation University of British Columbia, Department of Medicine & Center for Heart Lung Innovation, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada

Ma’en Obeidat

Affiliation University of British Columbia, Department of Medicine & Center for Heart Lung Innovation, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada

Don D. Sin

Affiliation University of British Columbia, Department of Medicine & Center for Heart Lung Innovation, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada

Scott J. Tebbutt

Affiliations University of British Columbia, Department of Medicine & Center for Heart Lung Innovation, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada, The PROOF Centre of Excellence, Vancouver, Canada

Wim Timens

Affiliation University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, GRIAC research institute, Groningen, The Netherlands

Dirkje S. Postma

Affiliation University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, GRIAC research institute, Groningen, The Netherlands

Michel Laviolette

Affiliation Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Quebec City, Canada

Peter D. Paré

Affiliation University of British Columbia, Department of Medicine & Center for Heart Lung Innovation, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada

Yohan Bossé

yohan.bosse@criucpq.ulaval.ca

Affiliations Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Quebec City, Canada, Department of Molecular Medicine, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DDS SJT PDP YB. Performed the experiments: DDS WT DSP ML PDP YB. Analyzed the data: JL MO SJT YB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DDS WT DSP ML PDP YB. Wrote the paper: JL SFE PDP YB. Revision of the manuscript: JL SFE MO DDS SJT WT DSP ML PDP YB.