About the Authors

Shima Shahbaz

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Najmeh Bozorgmehr

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Petya Koleva

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software

Affiliation Department of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Afshin Namdar

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Juan Jovel

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation The Applied Genomics Core, Office of Research, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Roy A. Fava

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliations Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Research Service, White River Junction, Vermont, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

Shokrollah Elahi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

elahi@ualberta.ca

Affiliations Department of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.