About the Authors
- Akul Singhania
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Affiliation Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
- Hitasha Rupani
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Affiliation Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
- Nivenka Jayasekera
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Affiliation Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
- Simon Lumb
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Affiliation UCB Celltech, Slough, United Kingdom
- Paul Hales
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Affiliation UCB Celltech, Slough, United Kingdom
- Neil Gozzard
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Affiliation UCB Celltech, Slough, United Kingdom
- Donna E. Davies
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Affiliations Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, Southampton NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Southampton Centre for Biomedical Research, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, United Kingdom
- Christopher H. Woelk
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Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher H. Woelk, Peter H. Howarth
* E-mail: c.h.woelk@soton.ac.uk (CHH); p.h.howarth@soton.ac.uk (PHH)
Affiliation Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
- Peter H. Howarth
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Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher H. Woelk, Peter H. Howarth
* E-mail: c.h.woelk@soton.ac.uk (CHH); p.h.howarth@soton.ac.uk (PHH)
Affiliations Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, Southampton NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Southampton Centre for Biomedical Research, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
Gene array analysis was funded by UCB Celtech as part of an academic collaboration with The University of Southampton. This commercial affiliation does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: PHH NJ SL PH NG. Data curation: AS. Formal analysis: AS CHW PHH. Funding acquisition: PHH CHW. Investigation: HR NJ AS. Methodology: AS CHW PHH. Software: AS. Supervision: CHW PHH. Validation: AS HR. Visualization: AS. Writing – original draft: AS CHW PHH. Writing – review & editing: AS HR NJ SL PH NG DED CHW PHH.