About the Authors

Giorgio Pistis

Contributed equally to this work with: Giorgio Pistis, Ignazio Piras, Andrea Angius

Affiliation Istituto di Genetica delle Popolazioni, CNR, Alghero, Sassari, Italy

Ignazio Piras

Contributed equally to this work with: Giorgio Pistis, Ignazio Piras, Andrea Angius

Affiliation Shardna Life Sciences, Pula, Cagliari, Italy

Nicola Pirastu

Affiliation Shardna Life Sciences, Pula, Cagliari, Italy

Ivana Persico

Affiliation Istituto di Genetica delle Popolazioni, CNR, Alghero, Sassari, Italy

Alessandro Sassu

Affiliation Shardna Life Sciences, Pula, Cagliari, Italy

Andrea Picciau

Affiliation Shardna Life Sciences, Pula, Cagliari, Italy

Dionigio Prodi

Affiliation Shardna Life Sciences, Pula, Cagliari, Italy

Cristina Fraumene

Affiliation Shardna Life Sciences, Pula, Cagliari, Italy

Evelina Mocci

Affiliation Shardna Life Sciences, Pula, Cagliari, Italy

Maria Teresa Manias

Affiliation Shardna Life Sciences, Pula, Cagliari, Italy

Rossano Atzeni

Affiliation Shardna Life Sciences, Pula, Cagliari, Italy

Massimiliano Cosso

Affiliation Shardna Life Sciences, Pula, Cagliari, Italy

Mario Pirastu

Affiliations Istituto di Genetica delle Popolazioni, CNR, Alghero, Sassari, Italy, Shardna Life Sciences, Pula, Cagliari, Italy

Andrea Angius

Contributed equally to this work with: Giorgio Pistis, Ignazio Piras, Andrea Angius

angius@igm.ss.cnr.it

Affiliations Istituto di Genetica delle Popolazioni, CNR, Alghero, Sassari, Italy, Shardna Life Sciences, Pula, Cagliari, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MP AA. Performed the experiments: IP AS AP DAP CF EM. Analyzed the data: GP ISP NP IP TM AA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RA MC. Wrote the paper: GP ISP AA.