About the Authors

Kirk S. B. Bergstrom

Current address: Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada

Vijay Morampudi

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada

Justin M. Chan

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada

Ganive Bhinder

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada

Jennifer Lau

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada

Hyungjun Yang

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada

Caixia Ma

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada

Tina Huang

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada

Natasha Ryz

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada

Ho Pan Sham

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada

Maryam Zarepour

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada

Colby Zaph

Affiliation Biomedical Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

David Artis

Affiliation Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Joan and Sanford Weill Department of Medicine, West Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Meera Nair

Affiliation Division of Biomedical Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Bruce A. Vallance

bvallance@cw.bc.ca

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KSBB VM JMC BAV. Performed the experiments: KSBB VM JMC GB JL HY CM TH MZ NR HPS CZ MN. Analyzed the data: KSBB VM BAV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DA MN. Wrote the paper: KSBB VM HPS GB BAV.