About the Authors

Ling-bo Li

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Donald Y. M. Leung

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Elena Goleva

GolevaE@njhealth.org

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LL EG DL. Performed the experiments: LL. Analyzed the data: LL EG. Wrote the paper: LL EG DL.