About the Authors

Ildikó Ungvári

Contributed equally to this work with: Ildikó Ungvári, Gábor Hullám

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell and Immunobiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

Gábor Hullám

Contributed equally to this work with: Ildikó Ungvári, Gábor Hullám

Affiliation Department of Measurement and Information Systems, University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

Péter Antal

Affiliation Department of Measurement and Information Systems, University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

Petra Sz. Kiszel

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell and Immunobiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

András Gézsi

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell and Immunobiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

Éva Hadadi

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell and Immunobiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

Viktor Virág

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell and Immunobiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

Gergely Hajós

Affiliation Department of Measurement and Information Systems, University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

András Millinghoffer

Affiliation Department of Measurement and Information Systems, University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

Adrienne Nagy

Affiliation Heim Pal Children Hospital, Budapest, Hungary

András Kiss

Affiliation Heim Pal Children Hospital, Budapest, Hungary

Ágnes F. Semsei

Affiliation Inflammation Biology and Immunogenomics Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

Gergely Temesi

Affiliation Csertex Research Laboratory, Budapest, Hungary

Béla Melegh

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary

Péter Kisfali

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary

Márta Széll

Affiliation Dermatological Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary

András Bikov

Affiliation Department of Pulmonology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

Gabriella Gálffy

Affiliation Department of Pulmonology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

Lilla Tamási

Affiliation Department of Pulmonology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

András Falus

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Cell and Immunobiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary, Inflammation Biology and Immunogenomics Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

Csaba Szalai

genomika.cs@gmail.com

Affiliations Heim Pal Children Hospital, Budapest, Hungary, Inflammation Biology and Immunogenomics Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary, Csertex Research Laboratory, Budapest, Hungary

Competing Interests

As a part time job, Dr. Szalai is the head of Csertex Research Laboratory, which is a property of the Csertex Ltd which has two parts, one is a commercial company, the other one is a research laboratory, where basic researches are carried out, mainly about asthma and bioinformatics. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IU PSK ÉH VV AN AK ÁFS BM PK MS AB GG LT AF CS. Performed the experiments: IU ÉH VV AB CS. Analyzed the data: IU G. Hullám PA PSK AG ÉH VV G. Hajós AM AN ÁFS GT AB GG LT CS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: G. Hullám PA AG G. Hajós AM AN AK GT BM PK MS AB GG LT AF CS. Wrote the paper: IU G. Hullám PA ÁFS AB CS. Designed the software used in analysis: G. Hullám PA AG G. Hajós AM GT.