About the Authors

Nat F Brown

Contributed equally to this work with: Nat F Brown, Bruce A Vallance

Affiliation Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Bruce A Vallance

Contributed equally to this work with: Nat F Brown, Bruce A Vallance

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Brian K Coombes

Affiliation Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Yanet Valdez

Affiliation Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Bryan A Coburn

Affiliation Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

B. Brett Finlay

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bfinlay@unixg.ubc.ca

Affiliation Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

NFB, BAV, BKC, YV, and BAC conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, and analyzed the data. NFB contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. NFB, BAV, BKC, YV, BAC, and BBF wrote the paper.