About the Authors

Helen E. Wood

Affiliation MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Nadine Marlin

Affiliation Asthma UK Centre for Applied Asthma Research, Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Ian S. Mudway

ian.mudway@kcl.ac.uk

Affiliation MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Stephen A. Bremner

Affiliation Asthma UK Centre for Applied Asthma Research, Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Louise Cross

Affiliation Asthma UK Centre for Applied Asthma Research, Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Isobel Dundas

Affiliation Blizard Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Andrew Grieve

Affiliation MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Jonathan Grigg

Affiliation Blizard Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Jeenath B. Jamaludin

Affiliations MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom, Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine (INFORMM), Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia

Frank J. Kelly

Affiliation MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Tak Lee

Affiliations MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom, Allergy Centre, HK Sanatorium and Hospital, Hong Kong, China

Aziz Sheikh

Affiliations Allergy & Respiratory Research Group, Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Robert Walton

Affiliation Asthma UK Centre for Applied Asthma Research, Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Christopher J. Griffiths

Affiliation Asthma UK Centre for Applied Asthma Research, Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FJK ISM CJG JG TL AS SAB. Performed the experiments: HEW ISM JBJ AG LC ID RW. Analyzed the data: HEW NM SAB. Wrote the paper: HEW NM ISM SAB LC ID AG JG JBJ FJK TL AS RW CJG.