About the Authors

Jamie R. Littlejohn

Contributed equally to this work with: Jamie R. Littlejohn, Ruben F. da Silva, William A. Neale, Carrie C. Smallcombe

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

Ruben F. da Silva

Contributed equally to this work with: Jamie R. Littlejohn, Ruben F. da Silva, William A. Neale, Carrie C. Smallcombe

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

William A. Neale

Contributed equally to this work with: Jamie R. Littlejohn, Ruben F. da Silva, William A. Neale, Carrie C. Smallcombe

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

Carrie C. Smallcombe

Contributed equally to this work with: Jamie R. Littlejohn, Ruben F. da Silva, William A. Neale, Carrie C. Smallcombe

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Pathobiology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, United States of America.

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

Howard W. Clark

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University of Southampton, Department of Child Health, Division of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Sir Henry Wellcome Laboratories, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom, Southampton NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom, Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Rose-Marie A. Mackay

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation University of Southampton, Department of Child Health, Division of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Sir Henry Wellcome Laboratories, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom

Alastair S. Watson

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation University of Southampton, Department of Child Health, Division of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Sir Henry Wellcome Laboratories, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom

Jens Madsen

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University of Southampton, Department of Child Health, Division of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Sir Henry Wellcome Laboratories, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom, Southampton NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom, Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Derek W. Hood

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mammalian Genetics Unit, MRC Harwell Institute, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Ian Burns

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

Trevor J. Greenhough

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

Annette K. Shrive

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

a.k.shrive@keele.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.