About the Authors

Peter W. Heymann

Contributed equally to this work with: Peter W. Heymann, Huyen-Tran Nguyen

Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Asthma and Allergic Diseases Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Huyen-Tran Nguyen

Contributed equally to this work with: Peter W. Heymann, Huyen-Tran Nguyen

Affiliations Division of Asthma Research, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

John W. Steinke

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Asthma and Allergic Diseases Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Ronald B. Turner

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Judith A. Woodfolk

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Asthma and Allergic Diseases Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Thomas A. E. Platts-Mills

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Asthma and Allergic Diseases Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Lisa Martin

Affiliation Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Hua He

Affiliation Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Jocelyn Biagini Myers

Affiliation Division of Asthma Research, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Mark Lindsey

Affiliation Division of Asthma Research, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Umasundari Sivaprasad

Affiliation Division of Asthma Research, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Mario Medvedovic

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Naim Mahi

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Holliday Carper

Affiliation Division of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Deborah D. Murphy

Affiliation Division of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

James Patrie

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey

Gurjit.Hershey@cchmc.org

Affiliation Division of Asthma Research, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: GKKH PWH TPM. Data curation: PWH JWS RBT JAW ML US MM NM HC DDM. Formal analysis: HN LM HH JBM ML US MM NM JP. Funding acquisition: GKKH PWH TPM. Investigation: GKKH PWH HN JWS RBT JAW TPM US MM NM HC DDM. Methodology: GKKH PWH ML US MM NM HC. Project administration: GKKH PWH HN JAW TPM JBM US. Resources: PWH RBT JAW TPM. Supervision: GKKH PWH RBT TPM. Validation: LM HH MM NM. Visualization: HN LM HH ML. Writing – original draft: GKKH PWH HN. Writing – review & editing: GKKH PWH HN JBM.