About the Authors

Bin Liu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hannover Medical School, Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), German Center for Lung Research, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Bodo Rosenhahn

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Institut für Informationsverarbeitung (TNT), Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Thomas Illig

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliations Hannover Medical School, Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), German Center for Lung Research, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany, Hannover Unified Biobank, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

David S. DeLuca

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

DeLuca.David@mh-hannover.de

Affiliation Hannover Medical School, Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), German Center for Lung Research, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.