About the Authors

Lindsay B. Henderson

Affiliation McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Vishal K. Doshi

Affiliation McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Scott M. Blackman

Affiliations McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kathleen M. Naughton

Affiliation McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Rhonda G. Pace

Affiliation Cystic Fibrosis/Pulmonary Research and Treatment Center, School of Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jackob Moskovitz

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Michael R. Knowles

Affiliation Cystic Fibrosis/Pulmonary Research and Treatment Center, School of Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Peter R. Durie

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Mitchell L. Drumm

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics and Genetics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Garry R. Cutting

gcutting@jhmi.edu

Affiliation McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LBH VKD SMB MLD GRC. Performed the experiments: LBH VKD. Analyzed the data: LBH VKD MLD GRC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KMN RGP JM MRK PRD MLD GRC. Wrote the paper: LBH GRC.