About the Authors

Preethi Krishnan

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Sunita Ghosh

Affiliations Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Cross Cancer Institute, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Bo Wang

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Mieke Heyns

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Kathryn Graham

Affiliations Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Cross Cancer Institute, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

John R. Mackey

Affiliations Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Cross Cancer Institute, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Olga Kovalchuk

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Sambasivarao Damaraju

sdamaraj@ualberta.ca

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Cross Cancer Institute, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SD PK. Formal analysis: PK SG. Funding acquisition: SD. Investigation: SD. Methodology: PK SG. Resources: JM KG SD. Supervision: SD. Validation: OK BW MH. Writing – original draft: PK. Writing – review & editing: SD SG JM OK BW.