About the Authors

Ye Qiu

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

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

Xin Ye

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

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

Huifang Mary Zhang

Roles Data curation

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

Paul Hanson

Roles Data curation, Methodology

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

Guangze Zhao

Roles Data curation

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

Lei Tong

Roles Data curation

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

Ronald Xie

Roles Data curation

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

Decheng Yang

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

decheng.yang@hli.ubc.ca

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.