Reinis Vangravs

Contributors All the authors fulfilled the ICMJE four authorship criteria. There is no one else who fulfils the criteria that has been excluded as an author. All authors gave permission to be included. OS is responsible for the overall content as guarantor. The guarantor accepts full responsibility for this work. OS: planned the study, organised data collection, interpreted the results, drafted the manuscript.

1 INTRODUCTION Recent studies have documented those volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which form a “volatilome”, play important roles in human organism.1, 2 For example, the biosignatures of human VOCs have the potential of providing information on the presence of disease or infection, and hence have the potential for use as diagnostic tools.

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3248-9846Olga Sjomina1,2, Reinis Vangravs1, Elīna Ļeonova1,2, Inese Poļaka1, Dārta Pūpola1, Kristaps Čivkulis1, Aleksandra Jeniceka2, Sergejs Paršutins1, Ilmārs Stonāns1, Jin Young Park3, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7713-2373Lars Engstrand4, Mārcis Leja1,2 1Institute of Clinical and Preventive Medicine, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia 2Faculty of Medicine, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia 3International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France 4Department of...