About the Authors

Loretta Müller

Affiliations Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, University Children’s Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Megan Meyer

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Rebecca N. Bauer

Affiliations Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Haibo Zhou

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Hongtao Zhang

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Shannon Jones

Affiliation Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Carole Robinette

Affiliation Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Terry L. Noah

Affiliations Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Ilona Jaspers

Ilona-Jaspers@med.unc.edu

Affiliations Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TN IJ. Performed the experiments: LM MM RB SJ. Analyzed the data: LM HaZ HoZ IJ. Wrote the paper: LM IJ TN. Subject recruitment and study coordination: CR. Sample acquisition: TN IJ CR.