About the Authors

Sina A. Gharib

Contributed equally to this work with: Sina A. Gharib, Abdelnaby Khalyfa

Affiliations Center for Lung Biology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Abdelnaby Khalyfa

Contributed equally to this work with: Sina A. Gharib, Abdelnaby Khalyfa

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Biological Sciences Division, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Amal Abdelkarim

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Biological Sciences Division, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Bharat Bhushan

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Biological Sciences Division, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

David Gozal

dgozal@uchicago.edu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Biological Sciences Division, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DG. Performed the experiments: AK AA BB. Analyzed the data: SAG AK DG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DG. Wrote the paper: SAG DG.