About the Authors

Peristera Paschou

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ppaschou@mbg.duth.gr

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupoli, Greece

Elad Ziv

Affiliations Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America , Institute for Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America , Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Esteban G Burchard

Affiliations Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America , Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Shweta Choudhry

Affiliation Lung Biology Center, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

William Rodriguez-Cintron

Affiliation Pulmonary/CCM Veterans Caribbean Healthcare System, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Michael W Mahoney

Affiliation Yahoo Research, Sunnyvale, California, United States of America

Petros Drineas

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

PP, EZ, and PD conceived and designed the experiments. PP and PD performed the experiments and analyzed the data. All authors contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. PP, EZ, and PD wrote the paper.