About the Authors

Daniel Aguilar

daniel.aguilar@upf.edu

Affiliations ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain, Structural Bioinformatics Group, Departament de Ciencies Experimentals i de la Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Epidemiologia y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain

Mariona Pinart

Affiliations ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Epidemiologia y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain, Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain

Gerard H. Koppelman

Affiliations University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD, Groningen, The Netherlands, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Beatrix Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergology, Groningen, The Netherlands

Yvan Saeys

Affiliations Inflammation Research Center, VIB, Ghent, Belgium, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Martijn C. Nawijn

Affiliations University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD, Groningen, The Netherlands, University of Groningen, Laboratory of Allergology and Pulmonary Diseases, Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Dirkje S. Postma

Affiliations University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD, Groningen, The Netherlands, University of Groningen, Laboratory of Allergology and Pulmonary Diseases, Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Mübeccel Akdis

Affiliations Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), Davos, Switzerland, Christine Kühne–Center for Allergy Research and Education, Davos, Switzerland

Charles Auffray

Affiliation European Institute for Systems Biology and Medicine (EISBM), CNRS, Lyon, France

Stéphane Ballereau

Affiliation European Institute for Systems Biology and Medicine (EISBM), CNRS, Lyon, France

Marta Benet

Affiliations ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Epidemiologia y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain

Judith García-Aymerich

Affiliations ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Epidemiologia y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain

Juan Ramón González

Affiliations ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Epidemiologia y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain

Stefano Guerra

Affiliations ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Epidemiologia y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain, Arizona Respiratory Center, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Thomas Keil

Affiliation Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité University Medical Centre, Berlin, Germany

Manolis Kogevinas

Affiliations ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Epidemiologia y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain, Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain, National School of Public Health, Athens, Greece

Bart Lambrecht

Affiliations University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD, Groningen, The Netherlands, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Nathanael Lemonnier

Affiliation European Institute for Systems Biology and Medicine (EISBM), CNRS, Lyon, France

Erik Melen

Affiliations Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Sach's Children's Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Jordi Sunyer

Affiliations ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain, Structural Bioinformatics Group, Departament de Ciencies Experimentals i de la Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Epidemiologia y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain, Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain

Rudolf Valenta

Affiliations Division of Immunopathology, Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center of Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Christian Doppler Laboratory for Allergy Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Sergi Valverde

Affiliations ICREA-Complex Systems Lab, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, CSIC-UPF, Barcelona, Spain

Magnus Wickman

Affiliations Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Sach's Children's Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Jean Bousquet

Affiliation Hopital Arnaud de Villeneuve University Hospital and Inserm, Montpellier, France

Baldo Oliva

Affiliation Structural Bioinformatics Group, Departament de Ciencies Experimentals i de la Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Josep M. Antó

Affiliations ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Epidemiologia y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain, Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DA JMA BO MP GHK YS MCN DSP EM JB BO. Data curation: DA. Formal analysis: DA JRG. Funding acquisition: JMA BO JB TK RV GHK MCN DSP BL CA YS MA. Investigation: DA JRG. Methodology: DA BO. Project administration: JMA JB MA CA TK DSP RV. Resources: BO JMA. Software: DA. Supervision: JMA BO. Validation: DA. Visualization: DA. Writing – original draft: DA JMA BO. Writing – review & editing: DA JMA MP GHK YS MCN DSP MA CA SB MB JGA JRG SG TK MK BL NL EM JS RV SV MW JB BO.