About the Authors

Valérie Besnard

Affiliation The Perinatal Institute and Section of Neonatology, Perinatal and Pulmonary Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, the Department of Pediatrics and The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Susan E. Wert

Affiliation The Perinatal Institute and Section of Neonatology, Perinatal and Pulmonary Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, the Department of Pediatrics and The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Machiko Ikegami

Affiliation The Perinatal Institute and Section of Neonatology, Perinatal and Pulmonary Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, the Department of Pediatrics and The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Yan Xu

Affiliation The Perinatal Institute and Section of Neonatology, Perinatal and Pulmonary Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, the Department of Pediatrics and The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Caleb Heffner

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Stephen A. Murray

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Leah Rae Donahue

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Jeffrey A. Whitsett

jeff.whitsett@cchmc.org

Affiliation The Perinatal Institute and Section of Neonatology, Perinatal and Pulmonary Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, the Department of Pediatrics and The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MI JAW. Performed the experiments: VB SEW MI YX CH. Analyzed the data: VB SEW MI YX JAW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CH SAM LRD. Wrote the paper: VB SEW YX JAW.