About the Authors

Jean-Bosco Tagne

Affiliation Pulmonary Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sumeet Gupta

Affiliation Center for Microarray Technology, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Adam C. Gower

Affiliation Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Steven S. Shen

Affiliation Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Saaket Varma

Affiliation Pulmonary Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Meenakshi Lakshminarayanan

Affiliation Pulmonary Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yuxia Cao

Affiliation Pulmonary Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Avrum Spira

Affiliations Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Thomas L. Volkert

Affiliation Center for Microarray Technology, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Maria I. Ramirez

mramirez@bu.edu

Affiliation Pulmonary Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JBT ACG MIR. Performed the experiments: JBT SG TLV SV YC ML. Analyzed the data: JBT SG ACG SSS AS MIR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS TLV. Wrote the paper: JBT SG ACG MIR.