About the Authors

Caroline Colijn

C.Colijn@bristol.ac.uk

Affiliations Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Aaron Brandes

Affiliation Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeremy Zucker

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Desmond S. Lun

Affiliations Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Phenomics and Bioinformatics Research Centre, School of Mathematics and Statistics, and Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, South Australia, Australia

Brian Weiner

Affiliation Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Maha R. Farhat

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tan-Yun Cheng

Affiliation Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

D. Branch Moody

Affiliation Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Megan Murray

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

James E. Galagan

Affiliations Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Microbiology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC AB JZ JEG. Performed the experiments: CC AB JZ TYC DBM. Analyzed the data: CC AB JZ DSL BW MRF MM JEG. Wrote the paper: CC DSL BW JEG.