About the Authors

Partha Sen

Contributed equally to this work with: Partha Sen, Avinash V. Dharmadhikari

psen@msn.com (P. Sen); pawels@bcm.edu (P. Stankiewicz)

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Avinash V. Dharmadhikari

Contributed equally to this work with: Partha Sen, Avinash V. Dharmadhikari

Affiliations Department of Molecular & Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Interdepartmental Program in Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Tadeusz Majewski

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Mahmoud A. Mohammad

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Tanya V. Kalin

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Joanna Zabielska

Affiliation Institute of Informatics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

Xiaomeng Ren

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Molly Bray

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Hannah M. Brown

Affiliations Department of Molecular & Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Robinson Research Institute, School of Pediatrics and Reproductive Health, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Stephen Welty

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Sundararajah Thevananther

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Interdepartmental Program in Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Claire Langston

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Przemyslaw Szafranski

Affiliation Department of Molecular & Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Monica J. Justice

Affiliations Department of Molecular & Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Interdepartmental Program in Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Vladimir V. Kalinichenko

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Anna Gambin

Affiliations Institute of Informatics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, Mossakowski Medical Research Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

John Belmont

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular & Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Pawel Stankiewicz

psen@msn.com (P. Sen); pawels@bcm.edu (P. Stankiewicz)

Affiliations Department of Molecular & Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Interdepartmental Program in Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

Tanya Kalin and Vladimir Kalinichenko are PLOS ONE Editorial Board members. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE Editorial policies and criteria.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: P. Sen AVD HB P. Stankiewicz. Performed the experiments: P. Sen AVD TM MM MB ST P. Szafranski. Analyzed the data: P. Sen AVD JZ AG JB CL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TVK XR VVK MJJ SW. Wrote the paper: P. Sen AVD P. Stankiewicz.