About the Authors

Jason D. Christie

Contributed equally to this work with: Jason D. Christie, Mark M. Wurfel

jchristi@mail.med.upenn.edu

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Mark M. Wurfel

Contributed equally to this work with: Jason D. Christie, Mark M. Wurfel

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Rui Feng

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Grant E. O'Keefe

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jonathan Bradfield

Affiliation Division of Human Genetics, Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Lorraine B. Ware

Affiliation Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

David C. Christiani

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health and Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Carolyn S. Calfee

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Institute, Departments of Medicine and Anesthesia, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Mitchell J. Cohen

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Michael Matthay

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Institute, Departments of Medicine and Anesthesia, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Nuala J. Meyer

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Cecilia Kim

Affiliation Division of Human Genetics, Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Mingyao Li

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Joshua Akey

Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Kathleen C. Barnes

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

Jonathan Sevransky

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

Paul N. Lanken

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Addison K. May

Affiliation Department of Surgical Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Richard Aplenc

Affiliation Division of Oncology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

James P. Maloney

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Hakon Hakonarson

Affiliation Division of Human Genetics, Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

for the Trauma ALI SNP Consortium (TASC) investigators

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JDC MMW JB DCC RA HH. Performed the experiments: JDC JB CK MMW JA RA HH AKM. Analyzed the data: RF JB NJM JDC ML JA MMW HH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JDC MMW GEO LBW DCC CSC MJC MM KCB JS PNL AKM RA JPM HH. Wrote the paper: JDC MMW DCC LBW CSC MM KCB JS JPM RA HH.