1. Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases and Thoracic Surgery (BREATHE), Department of Chronic Diseases and Metabolism (CHROMETA),
2. Unit for Interstitial Lung Diseases, Department of Respiratory Diseases,
3. Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut;
4. Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany;
5. Department of Histopathology, and
6. Department of Public Health and Primary Care, and
7. Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium;
8. Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Transplantation, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;
9. Department of Radiology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;
10. Institute of Functional and Clinical Anatomy, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany;
11. Institute of Pathology and Molecular Pathology, Helios University Clinic Wuppertal, University of Witten/Herdecke, Wuppertal, Germany;
12. Telomeres Research Group, Genetic and Epigenetic Alterations of Genomes, de Duve Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium;
13. Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; and
14. Antwerp Surgical Training, Anatomy and Research Centre, Antwerp University, Antwerp, Belgium