About the Authors

Gustavo Nino

Contributed equally to this work with: Gustavo Nino, Shehlanoor Huseni

gnino@childrensnational.org

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Integrative Systems Biology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America, Center for Genetic Research Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Shehlanoor Huseni

Contributed equally to this work with: Gustavo Nino, Shehlanoor Huseni

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Geovanny F. Perez

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Krishna Pancham

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Humaira Mubeen

Affiliation Center for Genetic Research Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Aleeza Abbasi

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, United States of America

Justin Wang

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Stephen Eng

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Anamaris M. Colberg-Poley

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Integrative Systems Biology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America, Center for Genetic Research Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Dinesh K. Pillai

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Integrative Systems Biology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America, Center for Genetic Research Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Mary C. Rose

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Integrative Systems Biology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America, Center for Genetic Research Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GN ACP DKP MCR. Performed the experiments: GN SH GP KP HM AA. Analyzed the data: GN JW SE. Wrote the paper: GN SH GP DKP ACP MCR.