About the Authors

Dan Zhou

Affiliations Departments of Pediatrics, Section of Respiratory Medicine, and Neuroscience, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, The Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Jin Xue

Affiliations Departments of Pediatrics, Section of Respiratory Medicine, and Neuroscience, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, The Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Jianming Chen

Affiliation Department of Immunology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Patrick Morcillo

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, United States of America

J. David Lambert

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Kevin P. White

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ghaddad@ucsd.edu (GH), kpwhite@uchicago.edu (KP)

Affiliation Institute for Genomics & Systems Biology and Departments of Human Genetics and Ecology and Evolution, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Gabriel G. Haddad

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ghaddad@ucsd.edu (GH), kpwhite@uchicago.edu (KP)

Affiliations Departments of Pediatrics, Section of Respiratory Medicine, and Neuroscience, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, The Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KW DZ GH. Performed the experiments: JC DZ JX PM. Analyzed the data: JL JC DZ JX PM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KW DZ. Wrote the paper: KW DZ GH JX.