About the Authors

Federico Ávila-Moreno

avilamore@hotmail.com

Affiliations Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Facultad de Estudios Superiores (FES)-Iztacala, Biomedicine Research Unit (UBIMED), Cancer Epigenomics Laboratory 12, Tlalnepantla, Mexico State, Mexico, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias (INER), Mexico City, Mexico

Leonel Armas-López

Affiliation Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Facultad de Estudios Superiores (FES)-Iztacala, Biomedicine Research Unit (UBIMED), Cancer Epigenomics Laboratory 12, Tlalnepantla, Mexico State, Mexico

Aldo M. Álvarez-Moran

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias (INER), Mexico City, Mexico

Zoila López-Bujanda

Affiliations Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Facultad de Estudios Superiores (FES)-Iztacala, Biomedicine Research Unit (UBIMED), Cancer Epigenomics Laboratory 12, Tlalnepantla, Mexico State, Mexico, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias (INER), Mexico City, Mexico, Johns Hopkins University, Medical Institutions, Maryland, Baltimore, United States of America

Blanca Ortiz-Quintero

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias (INER), Mexico City, Mexico

Alfredo Hidalgo-Miranda

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica (INMEGEN), Mexico City, Mexico

Francisco Urrea-Ramírez

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias (INER), Mexico City, Mexico

R. María Rivera-Rosales

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias (INER), Mexico City, Mexico

Eugenia Vázquez-Manríquez

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias (INER), Mexico City, Mexico

Erika Peña-Mirabal

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias (INER), Mexico City, Mexico

José Morales-Gómez

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias (INER), Mexico City, Mexico

Juan C. Vázquez-Minero

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias (INER), Mexico City, Mexico

José L. Téllez-Becerra

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias (INER), Mexico City, Mexico

Roberto Ramírez-Mendoza

Affiliation Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Facultad de Estudios Superiores (FES)-Iztacala, Biomedicine Research Unit (UBIMED), Cancer Epigenomics Laboratory 12, Tlalnepantla, Mexico State, Mexico

Alejandro Ávalos-Bracho

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias (INER), Mexico City, Mexico

Enrique Guzmán de Alba

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias (INER), Mexico City, Mexico

Karla Vázquez-Santillán

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica (INMEGEN), Mexico City, Mexico

Vilma Maldonado-Lagunas

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica (INMEGEN), Mexico City, Mexico

Patricio Santillán-Doherty

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias (INER), Mexico City, Mexico

Patricia Piña-Sánchez

Affiliation Unidad de Investigación Médica en Enfermedades Oncológicas (UIMEO), Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS), Centro Médico Nacional (CMN), Siglo XXI, México City, México

Joaquin Zúñiga-Ramos

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias (INER), Mexico City, Mexico

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FAM LAL AMAM ZLB AHM RRM BOQ PPS JZR. Performed the experiments: FAM LAL AMAM ZLB AHM RRM PPS JZR. Analyzed the data: FAM LAL AMAM ZLB AHM RRM KVS VML BOQ PPS JZR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AMAM FUR JMG JCVM JLTB AAB EGA PSD RMRR EVM EPM. Wrote the paper: FAM ZLB AHM KVS PSD BOQ PPS JZR.