About the Authors

Carla L. Calvi

Contributed equally to this work with: Carla L. Calvi, Megan Podowski

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Megan Podowski

Contributed equally to this work with: Carla L. Calvi, Megan Podowski

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Franco R. D'Alessio

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Shana L. Metzger

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kaori Misono

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Hataya Poonyagariyagorn

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Armando Lopez-Mercado

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Therese Ku

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Thomas Lauer

Affiliation Pediatric Pulmonary, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Christopher Cheadle

Affiliation Lowe Family Genomics Core, Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

C. Conover Talbot Jr

Affiliation JHMI Microarray Core, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Chunfa Jie

Affiliation JHMI Microarray Core, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Sharon McGrath-Morrow

Affiliation Pediatric Pulmonary, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Landon S. King

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jeremy Walston

Affiliation Division of Geriatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Enid R. Neptune

eneptune@jhmi.edu

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ERN. Performed the experiments: CLC MP FRD SLM KM HP AL TK TL CC. Analyzed the data: FRD KM CC CCT CJ ERN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FRD CC CCT CJ LSK JW SM. Wrote the paper: ERN.