About the Authors
- Carlos Flores
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Contributed equally to this work with: Carlos Flores, Shwu-Fan Ma
* E-mail: 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
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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
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Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Research Unit, Hospital Universitario NS de Candelaria, Tenerife, Spain
- Michael S. Wade
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Affiliation Institute for Personalized Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Lina Pérez-Méndez
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Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Research Unit, Hospital Universitario NS de Candelaria, Tenerife, Spain
- Rick A. Kittles
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Affiliation Section of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Deli Wang
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Affiliation Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Srinivas Papaiahgari
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Jean G. Ford
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Rajesh Kumar
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Affiliation Division of Allergy and Immunology, Children's Memorial Hospital and Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Joe G. N. Garcia
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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.