About the Authors

Ednan K. Bajwa

Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Paul C. Cremer

Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michelle N. Gong

Affiliation Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Rihong Zhai

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Li Su

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

B. Taylor Thompson

Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

David C. Christiani

dchris@hsph.harvard.edu

Affiliations Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EB MG BT DC. Performed the experiments: RZ LS. Analyzed the data: EB PC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LS DC MG. Wrote the paper: EB PC MG BT DC. Genotyping: RZ LS.