About the Authors

Louise Jeanette Pauline Persson

louise.persson@med.uib.no

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Marianne Aanerud

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Pieter Sicco Hiemstra

Affiliation Department of Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Jon Andrew Hardie

Affiliations Department of Thoracic Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway, Institute of Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Per Sigvald Bakke

Affiliation Institute of Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Tomas Mikal Lind Eagan

Affiliations Department of Thoracic Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway, Institute of Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LP PSB PSH TME. Performed the experiments: LP. Analyzed the data: LP MA PSB PSH TME. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LP MA PSB JAH TME. Wrote the paper: LP MA PSB JAH PSH TME.