About the Authors

Bala S. C. Koritala

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Yin Yeng Lee

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Systems Physiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Laetitia S. Gaspar

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Shweta S. Bhadri

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Wen Su

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Gang Wu

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Lauren J. Francey

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Marc D. Ruben

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Ming C. Gong

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

John B. Hogenesch

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

David F. Smith

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

David.Smith3@cchmc.org

Affiliations Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, The Sleep Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, The Center for Circadian Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist