About the Authors

Lutz Wiehlmann

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Department of Biophysical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Research Core Unit Genomics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Thorsten Adams

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Current address: Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH, Göttingen, Germany.

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Claus Urbanke

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biophysical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Sonja Horatzek

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Current address: VW Kraftwerk GmbH, Wolfsburg, Germany.

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Doris Jordan

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Current address: Kleintierpraxis Dr. Doris Jordan, Melle, Germany.

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Ilona Rosenboom

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Research Core Unit Genomics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Leo Eberl

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Burkhard Tümmler

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

tuemmler.burkhard@mh-hannover.de

Affiliations Department of Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Department of Biophysical Chemistry, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease, German Center for Lung Research, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. Thus, the authors have declared that no competing interests exist.