About the Authors
- Francesca Luca
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Current address: Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy
- Giuseppina Bubba
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Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy
- Massimo Basile
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Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy
- Radim Brdicka
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Affiliation Institute for Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague, Czech Republic
- Emmanuel Michalodimitrakis
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Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Heraklion, Greece
- Olga Rickards
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Affiliation Department of Biology, University “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy
- Galina Vershubsky
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Affiliations Arct. An. C Innovative Laboratory, Moscow, Russia, Institute of Developmental Physiology, Russian Academy of Education, Moscow, Russia
- Lluis Quintana-Murci
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Affiliation UP Human Evolutionary Genetics, CNRS-URA3012, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
- Andrey I. Kozlov
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Affiliation Arct. An. C Innovative Laboratory, Moscow, Russia
- Andrea Novelletto
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* E-mail: novelletto@bio.uniroma2.it
Affiliations Department of Cell Biology, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy, Department of Biology, University “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: FL LQM AK AN. Performed the experiments: FL GB. Analyzed the data: FL MB AN. Wrote the paper: FL RB EM OR GV LQM AK AN. Senior author: AK. Collected DNA samples and nutritional information: AK GV OR EM RB AN.