About the Authors

Lauren G. MacNeil

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

Elisa Glover

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

T. Graham Bergstra

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Adeel Safdar

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

Mark A. Tarnopolsky

tarnopol@mcmaster.ca

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LM EG MT. Performed the experiments: LM EG TB AS. Analyzed the data: LM TB AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MT. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: LM MT.