About the Authors

Xuting Wang

Affiliation Environmental Genomics Section, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Brian N. Chorley

Affiliation Environmental Genomics Section, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Gary S. Pittman

Affiliation Environmental Genomics Section, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Steven R. Kleeberger

Affiliation Environmental Genetics Section, Laboratory of Respiratory Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

John Brothers II

Affiliation Section of Computational Biomedicine, Department of Medicine and the Pulmonary Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gang Liu

Affiliation Section of Computational Biomedicine, Department of Medicine and the Pulmonary Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Avrum Spira

Affiliation Section of Computational Biomedicine, Department of Medicine and the Pulmonary Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Douglas A. Bell

BELL1@niehs.nih.gov

Affiliation Environmental Genomics Section, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BNC SK AS DAB. Performed the experiments: GSP GL. Analyzed the data: XW BNC JBI GL AS DAB. Wrote the paper: XW BNC AS DAB.