Lysophosphatidic acid receptor mRNA levels in heart and white adipose tissue are associated with obesity in mice and humans

• Amy Brown ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Amy Brown, Intekhab Hossain

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

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• Intekhab Hossain ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Amy Brown, Intekhab Hossain

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

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• Lester J. Perez,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

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• Carine Nzirorera,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

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• Kathleen Tozer,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

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• Kenneth D’Souza,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

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• Purvi C. Trivedi,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

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• Christie Aguiar,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cardiovascular Research New Brunswick, Saint John Regional Hospital, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

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• Alexandra M. Yip,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cardiovascular Research New Brunswick, Saint John Regional Hospital, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

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• Jennifer Shea,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Saint John Regional Hospital, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

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• Keith R. Brunt,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

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• Jean-Francois Legare,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Cardiovascular Research New Brunswick, Saint John Regional Hospital, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, Department of Cardiac Surgery, New Brunswick Heart Centre, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

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• Ansar Hassan,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Cardiovascular Research New Brunswick, Saint John Regional Hospital, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, Department of Cardiac Surgery, New Brunswick Heart Centre, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

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• Thomas Pulinilkunnil,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

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• Petra C. Kienesberger

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pkienesb@dal.ca

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9643-8338

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