About the Authors

Carlos Flores

Contributed equally to this work with: Carlos Flores, Shwu-Fan Ma

cflores@ull.es

Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Research Unit, Hospital Universitario NS de Candelaria, Tenerife, Spain

Shwu-Fan Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Carlos Flores, Shwu-Fan Ma

Affiliation Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

María Pino-Yanes

Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Research Unit, Hospital Universitario NS de Candelaria, Tenerife, Spain

Michael S. Wade

Affiliation Institute for Personalized Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Lina Pérez-Méndez

Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Research Unit, Hospital Universitario NS de Candelaria, Tenerife, Spain

Rick A. Kittles

Affiliation Section of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Deli Wang

Affiliation Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Srinivas Papaiahgari

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jean G. Ford

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Rajesh Kumar

Affiliation Division of Allergy and Immunology, Children's Memorial Hospital and Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Joe G. N. Garcia

Affiliation Institute for Personalized Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CF SW JGF RK JGNG. Performed the experiments: SW MSW MPY RAK SP RK. Analyzed the data: CF SW LPM RAK RK DW. Wrote the paper: CF SW MPY JGNG.