About the Authors

Concetta Aloi

Contributed equally to this work with: Concetta Aloi, Alessandro Salina

Affiliation Pediatric Clinic, University of Genoa, IRCCS G. Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy

Alessandro Salina

Contributed equally to this work with: Concetta Aloi, Alessandro Salina

Affiliation Pediatric Clinic, University of Genoa, IRCCS G. Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy

Lorenzo Pasquali

Affiliations Pediatric Clinic, University of Genoa, IRCCS G. Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy, Centro de Investigacion Biomedica en Red (CIBER) de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabolicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), Barcelona, Spain

Francesca Lugani

Affiliations Pediatric Clinic, University of Genoa, IRCCS G. Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Laboratory on Pathophysiology of Uremia and Department of Nephrology, IRCCS G. Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy

Katia Perri

Affiliation Pediatric Clinic, University of Genoa, IRCCS G. Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy

Chiara Russo

Affiliation Pediatric Clinic, University of Genoa, IRCCS G. Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy

Ramona Tallone

Affiliation Pediatric Clinic, University of Genoa, IRCCS G. Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy

Gian Marco Ghiggeri

Affiliation Laboratory on Pathophysiology of Uremia and Department of Nephrology, IRCCS G. Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy

Renata Lorini

Affiliation Pediatric Clinic, University of Genoa, IRCCS G. Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy

Giuseppe d'Annunzio

giuseppedannunzio@ospedale-gaslini.ge.it

Affiliation Pediatric Clinic, University of Genoa, IRCCS G. Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CA AS LP RL GDA. Performed the experiments: CA AS LP. Analyzed the data: CA AS FL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CA AS KP CR RT GMG. Wrote the paper: CA AS RL GDA.