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Stelios Loukides: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
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Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
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ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
22
March
2017
Publication date Collection: 2017
Volume: 12
Issue: 3
Electronic Location Identifier: e0174063
Affiliations
[1
]Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, James Hogg Research Centre, St. Paul’s Hospital,
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
[2
]Institute for Heart Lung Health, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada
[3
]PROOF Centre of Excellence, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
[4
]Department of Radiology, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
[5
]Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada
[6
]Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
[7
]The Lung Centre, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
[8
]Department of Computer Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, GREECE
Author notes
Competing Interests: YRC, VC, ZH, CJH, BMM, JMF, and RTN have nothing to disclose. JAL reports personal
fees from GE Healthcare, outside the submitted work. MLD reports grants from Genome
Canada, Genome British Columbia, Genome Quebec, Canadian Institutes for Health Research
(CIHR), Networks of Centres of Excellence Centre of Excellence for Commercialization
and Research, St. Paul's Hospital Foundation, and the Canadian Respiratory Research
Network, which is funded by the Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health Emerging
Network of CIHR, the Canadian Lung Association, the Canadian Thoracic Society, and
the Canadian Respiratory Health Professionals, during the conduct of the study. DS
reports grants from Genome Canada, grants from Canadian Institutes of Health Research,
during the conduct of the study; grants and personal fees from Boehringer Ingelheim,
grants and personal fees from AstraZeneca, personal fees from Novartis, grants from
Merck, outside the submitted work. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies
on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
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Conceptualization: YRC VC ZH DS.
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Data curation: YRC VC ZH DS.
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Formal analysis: YRC VC ZH.
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Investigation: YRC VC ZH JAL CJH.
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Methodology: YRC VC ZH DS.
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Project administration: ZH.
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Validation: YRC VC ZH DS.
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Visualization: YRC VC ZH.
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Writing – original draft: YRC.
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Writing – review & editing: VC ZH JAL CJH MLD JMF BMM RTN DS.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-16-33005
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0174063
PMC ID: 5362097
PubMed ID: 28328968
SO-VID: 5befe3a7-c28a-4996-8539-eb807f43fd11
Copyright © © 2017 Chen et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
History
Date
received
: 17
August
2016
Date
accepted
: 2
March
2017
Page count
Figures: 5,
Tables: 4,
Pages: 16
Funding
Funded by: Genome Canada (CA)
Funded by: Genome British Columbia (CA)
Funded by: Genome Quebec
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000024, Canadian Institutes of Health Research;
Funded by: PROOF Centre
Funded by: St Paul's Hospital Foundation
Funded by: Providence Health Care
Funded by: COPD Clinical Research Network
Funding was provided by Genome Canada, Genome British Columbia, Genome Quebec, the
Canadian Institutes of Health Research, PROOF Centre of Excellence, St. Paul's Foundation,
Providence Health Care Research Institute, the Canadian Respiratory Research Network,
and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s COPD Clinical Research Network
(Grants U10 HL074441, U10 HL074418, U10 HL074428, U10 HL074409, U10 HL074407, U10
HL074422, U10 HL074416, U10 HL074408, U10 HL074439, U10 HL0744231, and U10 HL074424).
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to
publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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