About the Authors

Rebecca M. Green

Affiliation Department of Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Fabienne Gally

Affiliation Department of Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Jonathon G. Keeney

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Scott Alper

Affiliation Department of Immunology, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Bifeng Gao

Affiliation Microarray Core, University of Colorado-Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Min Han

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Richard J. Martin

Affiliation Department of Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Andrew R. Weinberger

Affiliation Department of Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Stephanie R. Case

Affiliation Department of Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Maisha N. Minor

Affiliation Department of Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Hong Wei Chu

chuhw@njhealth.org

Affiliation Department of Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RMG JGK SA HWC. Performed the experiments: RMG FG BG ARW SRC MNM. Analyzed the data: RMG FG HWC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BG MH RM HWC. Wrote the paper: RMG. Edited manuscript: HWC FG JGK SA.