About the Authors

Nerea Matamala

Affiliation Molecular Genetics Unit, Instituto de Investigación de Enfermedades Raras (IIER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain

Nupur Aggarwal

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Hannover, Germany

Paolo Iadarola

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnologies, Biochemistry Unit, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Marco Fumagalli

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnologies, Biochemistry Unit, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Gema Gomez-Mariano

Affiliation Molecular Genetics Unit, Instituto de Investigación de Enfermedades Raras (IIER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain

Beatriz Lara

Affiliation Respiratory Medicine Department, Coventry and Warwickshire University Hospital, Coventry, Warwickshire, United Kingdom

Maria Teresa Martinez

Affiliation Pneumology Department, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain

Isabel Cuesta

Affiliation Bioinformatics Unit, Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain

Jan Stolk

Affiliation Department of Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands

Sabina Janciauskiene

Contributed equally to this work with: Sabina Janciauskiene, Beatriz Martinez-Delgado

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Hannover, Germany

Beatriz Martinez-Delgado

Contributed equally to this work with: Sabina Janciauskiene, Beatriz Martinez-Delgado

bmartinezd@isciii.es

Affiliation Molecular Genetics Unit, Instituto de Investigación de Enfermedades Raras (IIER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BMD SJ JS. Formal analysis: NM NA GG IC. Funding acquisition: BMD. Investigation: NM NA PI MF GG BL MTM IC. Methodology: NM SJ PI MF BMD. Project administration: JS SJ BMD. Resources: SJ BL MTM IC. Software: IC. Supervision: SJ BMD. Validation: NM NA PI MF GG SJ. Visualization: NM PI JS SJ BMD. Writing – original draft: NM SJ JS BMD. Writing – review & editing: JS SJ BMD.