About the Authors
- Melissa Piper Hunter
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Contributed equally to this work with: Melissa Piper Hunter, Noura Ismail
Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Noura Ismail
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Contributed equally to this work with: Melissa Piper Hunter, Noura Ismail
Affiliations Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology Program, College of Biological Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Xiaoli Zhang
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Affiliation Center for Biostatistics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Baltazar D. Aguda
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Affiliation Mathematical Biosciences Institute, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Eun Joo Lee
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Affiliation College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Lianbo Yu
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Affiliation Center for Biostatistics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Tao Xiao
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Affiliation Biostatistics, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Jeffrey Schafer
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Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Mei-Ling Ting Lee
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
- Thomas D. Schmittgen
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Affiliation College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- S. Patrick Nana-Sinkam
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Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- David Jarjoura
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Affiliation Center for Biostatistics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Clay B. Marsh
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* E-mail: Clay.Marsh@osumc.edu
Affiliations Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology Program, College of Biological Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Equally contributed to this paper through sample preparation, flow cytometry, data analysis and manuscript preparation: MPH NI. Provided assistance in microarray data analysis: PN. Performed the real-time PCR analysis: EL TDS. Performed all the computational analyses: BDA. Provided statistical analysis of the data sets: XZ LY ML DJ. Provided technical support and assisted in cell purifications: JS. Responsible for oversight of all aspects of this project: MPH CBM.