About the Authors

Shaidah Deghan Manshadi

Affiliation Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto and Keenan Research Center for Biomedical Science at St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Lisa Ishiguro

Affiliation Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto and Keenan Research Center for Biomedical Science at St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kyoung-Jin Sohn

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Toronto and Keenan Research Center of Biomedical Science at St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Alan Medline

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pathology, Humber River Regional Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Richard Renlund

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ruth Croxford

Affiliation Statistical Consultant, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Young-In Kim

youngin.kim@utoronto.ca

Affiliation Departments of Medicine & Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Division of Gastroenterology, St. Michael's Hospital and Keenan Research Center of Biomedical Science at St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SDM YIK. Performed the experiments: SDM LI KJS. Analyzed the data: SDM AM RR RC YIK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM RR. Wrote the paper: SDM YIK.