About the Authors

Artem Tkachuk

Contributed equally to this work with: Artem Tkachuk, Maria Kim

Affiliation Group of Telomere Biology, Institute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Maria Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Artem Tkachuk, Maria Kim

Affiliation Group of Telomere Biology, Institute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Oksana Kravchuk

Affiliation Group of Telomere Biology, Institute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Mikhail Savitsky

msavitsky@gmail.com

Affiliations Group of Telomere Biology, Institute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Center for Medical Studies of Oslo University, Moscow, Russia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS. Performed the experiments: AT MK OK MS. Analyzed the data: MS AT MK. Wrote the paper: MS AT MK.