Sala, Marc A.
Balderas-Martínez, Yalbi Itzel
Buendía-Roldan, Ivette
Abdala-Valencia, Hiam
Nam, Kiwon
Jain, Manu
Bhorade, Sangeeta
Bharat, Ankit
Reyfman, Paul A.
Ridge, Karen M.
Pardo, Annie
Sznajder, Jacob I.
Budinger, G. R. Scott
Misharin, Alexander V.
Selman, Moises http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1022-4783
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U19 AI135964 and R56 HL135124)
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs (W81XWH-15-1-0215, W81XWH-15-1-0215)
National Institutes of Health (HL125940, AG049665, HL048129, HL071643, and HL085534, ES013995 and HL071643)
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (BX000201)
Article History
Received: 28 August 2018
Accepted: 7 November 2018
First Online: 26 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Approval for this study was obtained by the institutional review boards at Northwestern University (Chicago, IL, USA) and Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosio Villegas (INER; Mexico City, Mexico). Patients and controls were explained about the study and signed a consent letter.
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