(b) Boxplots display principal component two across ILD patients (orange) and control samples (purple) for the three study cohorts. The boxes represent the interquartile range, the horizontal line in the box is the median, and the whiskers represent 1.5 times the interquartile range (Chicago cohort: ILD n = 9, controls n = 8; Nashville cohort: ILD n = 20, controls n = 10; Munich cohort: ILD n = 3, controls n = 11). 