About the Authors

Arkan Abadi

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Justin D. Crane

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Daniel Ogborn

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Bart Hettinga

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Mahmood Akhtar

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Andrew Stokl

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Lauren MacNeil

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Adeel Safdar

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Mark Tarnopolsky

tarnopol@mcmaster.ca

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MT BH AA JDC. Performed the experiments: AA BH JDC DO MA LM A. Stokl A. Safdar. Analyzed the data: AA JDC DO MA LM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AA BH JDC DO MA LM A. Stokl A. Safdar. Wrote the paper: AA MT JDC DO LM BH.