About the Authors

Neil R. Hackett

Contributed equally to this work with: Neil R. Hackett, Renat Shaykhiev, Matthew S. Walters

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Renat Shaykhiev

Contributed equally to this work with: Neil R. Hackett, Renat Shaykhiev, Matthew S. Walters

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Matthew S. Walters

Contributed equally to this work with: Neil R. Hackett, Renat Shaykhiev, Matthew S. Walters

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Rui Wang

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Rachel K. Zwick

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Barbara Ferris

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Bradley Witover

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Jacqueline Salit

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Ronald G. Crystal

geneticmedicine@med.cornell.edu

Affiliations Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NRH RS MSW RGC. Performed the experiments: RW RKZ BF BW. Analyzed the data: NRH RS MSW JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JS. Wrote the paper: NRH RS MSW RGC.