About the Authors

Souheil El-Chemaly

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kevin J. O’Brien

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Office of the Clinical Director, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Steven D. Nathan

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Advanced Lung Disease and Transplant Program, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Virginia, United States of America

Gerald L. Weinhouse

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hilary J. Goldberg

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jean M. Connors

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Hematology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ye Cui

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Todd L. Astor

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Philip C. Camp Jr.

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ivan O. Rosas

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Merte Lemma

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Advanced Lung Disease and Transplant Program, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Virginia, United States of America

Vladislav Speransky

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Melissa A. Merideth

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

William A. Gahl

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Office of the Clinical Director, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Medical Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Bernadette R. Gochuico

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

gochuicb@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Medical Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: SDN is a consultant for, has received research funding and is on the speakers bureau for Boerhinger-Ingelheim and Roche-Genentech. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.