About the Authors

Pardis Pedram

Affiliation Discipline of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada

Danny Wadden

Affiliation Discipline of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada

Peyvand Amini

Affiliation Discipline of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada

Wayne Gulliver

Affiliation Discipline of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada

Edward Randell

Affiliation Discipline of Laboratory Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada

Farrell Cahill

Affiliation Discipline of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada

Sudesh Vasdev

Affiliation Discipline of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada

Alan Goodridge

Affiliation Discipline of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada

Jacqueline C. Carter

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada

Guangju Zhai

Affiliation Discipline of Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada

Yunqi Ji

Affiliation Discipline of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada

Guang Sun

gsun@mun.ca

Affiliation Discipline of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PP GS. Performed the experiments: PP GS DW PA FC. Analyzed the data: PP GS YJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PP GS DW PA FC. Wrote the paper: PP. Collaborators who helped in Data gathering: WG ER SV AG GZ. Psychologist consultant: JC.