About the Authors

Pierre P. Massion

pierre.massion@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliation Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Yong Zou

Affiliation Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Hasmet Uner

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Porntip Kiatsimkul

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Holly J. Wolf

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Anna E. Baron

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Tim Byers

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Steinn Jonsson

Affiliation Department of Medicine University of Iceland Hospitals, Reykjavik, Iceland

Stephen Lam

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Fred R. Hirsch

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

York E. Miller

Affiliation Pulmonary Division, Department of Medicine, Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Wilbur A. Franklin

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Marileila Varella-Garcia

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PPM HW TB YEM WAF MVG. Performed the experiments: YZ MVG. Analyzed the data: PPM YZ HU PK HW AEB TB MVG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PPM SJ SL FH YEM WAF MVG. Wrote the paper: PPM SL MVG.