About the Authors
- Nami Shrestha Palikhe
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Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Drew Nahirney
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Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Cheryl Laratta
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Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Vivek Dipak Gandhi
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Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Dilini Vethanayagam
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Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Mohit Bhutani
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Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Alberta Asthma Center, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Irvin Mayers
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Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Lisa Cameron
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Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa Cameron, Harissios Vliagoftis
* E-mail: hari@ualberta.ca (HV); lisa.cameron@schulich.uwo.ca (LC)
Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Department of Pathology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, Canada
- Harissios Vliagoftis
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Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa Cameron, Harissios Vliagoftis
* E-mail: hari@ualberta.ca (HV); lisa.cameron@schulich.uwo.ca (LC)
Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Alberta Asthma Center, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interest exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: NSP LC HV. Performed the experiments: NSP DN VDG. Analyzed the data: NSP DN CL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LC HV. Wrote the paper: NSP LC HV. Made clinical database of the patients: CL, NSP. Facilitated recruitment of subjects and participated in clinical characterization of the patients: DV MB IM.