About the Authors

Haleh Davanian

Contributed equally to this work with: Haleh Davanian, Henrik Stranneheim

haleh.davanian@ki.se

Affiliation Division of Periodontology, Department of Dental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden

Henrik Stranneheim

Contributed equally to this work with: Haleh Davanian, Henrik Stranneheim

Affiliation Science for Life Laboratory, Division of Gene Technology, School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Solna, Sweden

Tove Båge

Affiliation Division of Periodontology, Department of Dental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden

Maria Lagervall

Affiliation Department of Periodontology at Skanstull, Stockholm County Council Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden

Leif Jansson

Affiliation Department of Periodontology at Skanstull, Stockholm County Council Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden

Joakim Lundeberg

Affiliation Science for Life Laboratory, Division of Gene Technology, School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Solna, Sweden

Tülay Yucel-Lindberg

Affiliation Division of Periodontology, Department of Dental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HD HS TB JL TYL. Performed the experiments: HD HS ML. Analyzed the data: HD HS TB JL TYL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ML LJ JL TYL. Wrote the paper: HD HS TB ML LJ TYL.