About the Authors
- Shilpa Jain
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Affiliations Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Maria G. Kapetanaki
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Affiliation Dorothy P. and Richard P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Nalini Raghavachari
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Affiliation Genomics Core Facility, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Kimberly Woodhouse
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Affiliation Genomics Core Facility, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Guoying Yu
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Affiliation Dorothy P. and Richard P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Suchitra Barge
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Affiliation Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Claudia Coronnello
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Affiliations Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Fondazione Ri.Med, Palermo, Italy
- Panayiotis V. Benos
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Affiliation Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Gregory J. Kato
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Affiliation Sickle Cell Vascular Disease Section, Pulmonary and Vascular Medicine Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Naftali Kaminski
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* E-mail: gladwinmt@upmc.edu (MTG); kaminskin@upmc.edu (NK)
Affiliation Dorothy P. and Richard P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Mark T. Gladwin
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* E-mail: gladwinmt@upmc.edu (MTG); kaminskin@upmc.edu (NK)
Affiliations Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Obtained consents and blood samples from the study subjects: SB. Conceived and designed the experiments: SJ MTG NK. Performed the experiments: SJ MGK NR KW GY. Analyzed the data: SJ MGK CC PVB NK MTG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MTG NK GJK NR. Wrote the paper: SJ MGK NK MTG.