About the Authors

Xuhua Xia

Affiliations Department of Biology and Center for Advanced Research in Environmental Genomics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Martin Holcik

martin@arc.cheo.ca

Affiliations Apoptosis Research Center, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada, Department of Pediatrics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XX MH. Performed the experiments: XX. Analyzed the data: XX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XX. Wrote the paper: XX MH.