About the Authors

A. Alshabanat

Abalshabanat@gmail.com

Current Address: The Lung Centre, 2775 Laurel Street, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada

‡ AA is the main author on this work. ZZ, OA, MD, and JMF are co-authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Z. Zafari

Contributed equally to this work with: Z. Zafari, O. Albanyan, M. Dairi, J. M. FitzGerald

‡ AA is the main author on this work. ZZ, OA, MD, and JMF are co-authors on this work.

Affiliation Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

O. Albanyan

Contributed equally to this work with: Z. Zafari, O. Albanyan, M. Dairi, J. M. FitzGerald

‡ AA is the main author on this work. ZZ, OA, MD, and JMF are co-authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Medicine, King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Dammam, Saudi Arabia

M. Dairi

Contributed equally to this work with: Z. Zafari, O. Albanyan, M. Dairi, J. M. FitzGerald

‡ AA is the main author on this work. ZZ, OA, MD, and JMF are co-authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

J. M. FitzGerald

Contributed equally to this work with: Z. Zafari, O. Albanyan, M. Dairi, J. M. FitzGerald

Current Address: The Lung Centre, 2775 Laurel Street, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada

‡ AA is the main author on this work. ZZ, OA, MD, and JMF are co-authors on this work.

Affiliations Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Institute for Heart and Lung Health (IHLH), Faculty of Medicine, 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: AA JMF. Performed the experiments: AA ZZ OA MD. Analyzed the data: ZZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AA JMF MD. Wrote the paper: AA JMF.