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  1. Jian-Qing He1,
  2. Loubna Akhabir1,
  3. Don D Sin1,
  4. S F Paul Man1,
  5. Peter D Paré1,
  6. Andrew J Sandford1,
  7. Marilyn G Foreman2,3,
  8. Dawn L DeMeo2,3,
  9. Edwin K Silverman2,3
  1. 1The UBC James Hogg Research Center, St Paul's Hospital, University of British, Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  2. 2Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  3. 3Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  1. Correspondence to Jian-Qing He, UBC James Hogg iCAPTURE Centre for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research, University of BC, 1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 1Y6, Canada; jhe{at}mrl.ubc.ca

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