About the Authors
- Laura Morelli
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Contributed equally to this work with: Laura Morelli, Daniela Contu
Affiliations Dipartimento di Zoologia e Genetica evoluzionistica, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
- Daniela Contu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Laura Morelli, Daniela Contu
Affiliation Laboratorio di Immunogenetica, Ospedale Microcitemico, Cagliari, Italy
- Federico Santoni
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Affiliations Biomedical Application Area, Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia (CRS4), Pula, Italy, Swiss Institution for Bioinformatics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Michael B. Whalen
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Affiliation Biomedical Application Area, Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia (CRS4), Pula, Italy
- Paolo Francalacci
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Zoologia e Genetica evoluzionistica, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
- Francesco Cucca
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* E-mail: francesco.cucca@inn.cnr.it
Affiliations Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy, Istituto di Neurogenetica e Neurofarmacologia (NN-CNR), Monserrato, Italy
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: LM DC FS PF FC. Performed the experiments: LM DC. Analyzed the data: LM FS MBW FC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FC. Wrote the paper: LM MBW PF FC. Designed and supervised the study: FC. Performed statistical analysis: FC, LM, FS, MBW. Read and approved the final manuscript: FC, DC, FS, MBW, PF. Participated in the study design: LM, DC, PF. Revised the manuscript: LM, DC, MBW. Designed figures and tables: LM. Participated in analysis of the data: DC. Performed marker genotyping: DC.