About the Authors
- Sena Karachanak
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Contributed equally to this work with: Sena Karachanak, Viola Grugni
Affiliations Department of Medical Genetics, Medical University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria, Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “L. Spallanzani”, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Viola Grugni
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Contributed equally to this work with: Sena Karachanak, Viola Grugni
Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “L. Spallanzani”, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Simona Fornarino
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “L. Spallanzani”, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Desislava Nesheva
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Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, Medical University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Nadia Al-Zahery
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “L. Spallanzani”, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Vincenza Battaglia
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “L. Spallanzani”, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Valeria Carossa
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “L. Spallanzani”, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Yordan Yordanov
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Affiliation Institute of Experimental Morphology and Anthropology with Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Antonio Torroni
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “L. Spallanzani”, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Angel S. Galabov
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Affiliation The Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Draga Toncheva
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* E-mail: dragatoncheva@gmail.com (DT); ornella.semino@unipv.it (OS)
Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, Medical University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Ornella Semino
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* E-mail: dragatoncheva@gmail.com (DT); ornella.semino@unipv.it (OS)
Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “L. Spallanzani”, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
performed sample collection: SK DN DT Discussed the results: SK VG SF DN NAZ VB VC AT AG YY DT OS Provided comments on the manuscript: SK VG SF DN NAZ VB VC AT AG YY DT OS. Conceived and designed the experiments: OS DT. Performed the experiments: SK VG SF DN NAZ VB VC. Analyzed the data: SK VG OS DT AT AG YY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OS AT DT. Wrote the paper: SK VG OS DT AG AT.