About the Authors
- Jee Lee
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Affiliation The Providence Heart and Lung Institute at St. Paul's Hospital, The UBC James Hogg Research Centre & Department of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Andrew J. Sandford
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Affiliation The Providence Heart and Lung Institute at St. Paul's Hospital, The UBC James Hogg Research Centre & Department of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- John E. Connett
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Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
- Jin Yan
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Affiliation The Providence Heart and Lung Institute at St. Paul's Hospital, The UBC James Hogg Research Centre & Department of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Tammy Mui
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Affiliation The Providence Heart and Lung Institute at St. Paul's Hospital, The UBC James Hogg Research Centre & Department of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Yuexin Li
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Affiliation The Providence Heart and Lung Institute at St. Paul's Hospital, The UBC James Hogg Research Centre & Department of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Denise Daley
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Affiliation The Providence Heart and Lung Institute at St. Paul's Hospital, The UBC James Hogg Research Centre & Department of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Nicholas R. Anthonisen
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Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Angela Brooks-Wilson
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Affiliation Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- S. F. Paul Man
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Affiliation The Providence Heart and Lung Institute at St. Paul's Hospital, The UBC James Hogg Research Centre & Department of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Don D. Sin
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* E-mail: don.sin@hli.ubc.ca
Affiliation The Providence Heart and Lung Institute at St. Paul's Hospital, The UBC James Hogg Research Centre & Department of Medicine, 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: DDS AJS. Performed the experiments: JL YL TM. Analyzed the data: DDS JL JY DD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AJS JEC NRA DDS SFP ABW. Wrote the paper: JL AJS JEC JY TM YL DD NRA SFP DDS.