About the Authors

Xin Ye

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, The Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Huifang Mary Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, The Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Ye Qiu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, The Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Paul J. Hanson

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, The Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Maged Gomaa Hemida

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, The Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Wei Wei

Affiliation Terry Fox Laboratory, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Pamela A. Hoodless

Affiliation Terry Fox Laboratory, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Fanny Chu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, The Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Decheng Yang

decheng.yang@hli.ubc.ca

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, The Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XY DY. Performed the experiments: XY HMZ YQ PJH MGH WW FC. Analyzed the data: XY DY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DY PAH. Wrote the paper: XY DY PAH.