About the Authors

Jaime Snowdon

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Queen's University and Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Canada

Xiao Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Queen's University and Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Canada

Tim Childs

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Queen's University and Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Canada

Victor A. Tron

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Queen's University and Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Canada

Harriet Feilotter

feilotth@KGH.KARI.NET

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Queen's University and Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JS TC VAT HF. Performed the experiments: JS XZ. Analyzed the data: JS XZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VAT HF. Wrote the paper: JS.