About the Authors

Satish K. Madala

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Ramakrishna Edukulla

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Mukta Phatak

Affiliation Laboratory for Statistical Genomics and Systems Biology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Stephanie Schmidt

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Cynthia Davidson

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Thomas H. Acciani

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Biology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Thomas R. Korfhagen

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Biology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Mario Medvedovic

Affiliation Laboratory for Statistical Genomics and Systems Biology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Timothy D. LeCras

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Biology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Kimberly Wagner

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

William D. Hardie

william.hardie@cchmc.org

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SKM WDH. Performed the experiments: SKM RE MP SS CD THA TRK TDL KW WDH. Analyzed the data: SKM RE MP SS CD THA WDH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SKM MM WDH. Wrote the paper: SKM WDH.