About the Authors

Wei Chen

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Allergy and Immunology, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

John M. Brehm

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Allergy and Immunology, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jerome Lin

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ting Wang

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Allergy and Immunology, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Erick Forno

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Allergy and Immunology, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Edna Acosta-Pérez

Affiliation Behavioral Sciences Research Institute, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Nadia Boutaoui

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Allergy and Immunology, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Glorisa Canino

Affiliation Behavioral Sciences Research Institute, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Juan C. Celedón

juan.celedon@chp.edu

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Allergy and Immunology, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EA-P GC EF JCC. Performed the experiments: NB. Analyzed the data: WC JMB JL TW. Wrote the paper: WC JCC. Wrote the initial draft of the manuscript: WC JCC. Reviewed and edited the manuscript for intellectual content: WC JMB JL TW EF EA-P NB GC JCC.