About the Authors
- Tong Zhou
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Contributed equally to this work with: Tong Zhou, Wei Zhang
Affiliations Institute for Personalized Respiratory Medicine, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, Department of Medicine, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Wei Zhang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Tong Zhou, Wei Zhang
Affiliations Institute of Human Genetics, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Nadera J. Sweiss
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Affiliation Section of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Edward S. Chen
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Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- David R. Moller
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Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Kenneth S. Knox
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Affiliation Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona, United States of America
- Shwu-Fan Ma
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Affiliation Section of Pulmonary/Critical Care, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Michael S. Wade
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Affiliations Institute for Personalized Respiratory Medicine, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, Department of Medicine, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Imre Noth
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Affiliation Section of Pulmonary/Critical Care, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Roberto F. Machado
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Affiliations Institute for Personalized Respiratory Medicine, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, Department of Medicine, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Joe G. N. Garcia
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* E-mail: jggarcia@uic.edu
Affiliations Institute for Personalized Respiratory Medicine, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, Department of Medicine, The University of Illinois at 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: TZ WZ NJS DRM KSK IN RFM JGNG. Performed the experiments: TZ WZ SFM MW. Analyzed the data: TZ WZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TZ WZ NJS ESC DRM KSK SFM MW IN. Wrote the paper: TZ WZ RFM JGNG.