About the Authors

Ting Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ting Wang, Zhao Ren

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Allergy and Immunology; Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Zhao Ren

Contributed equally to this work with: Ting Wang, Zhao Ren

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ying Ding

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Zhou Fang

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Zhe Sun

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Matthew L. MacDonald

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Robert A. Sweet

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, VISN 4 Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC), VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jieru Wang

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Allergy and Immunology; Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Wei Chen

wei.chen@chp.edu

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Allergy and Immunology; Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WC. Performed the experiments: MLM RAS. Analyzed the data: TW YD ZS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TW ZR ZF. Wrote the paper: TW ZR YD WC JW.