About the Authors

Carmela Fusco

Affiliation Medical Genetics Unit, IRCCS Casa Sollievo Della Sofferenza Hospital, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy

Lucia Micale

Affiliation Medical Genetics Unit, IRCCS Casa Sollievo Della Sofferenza Hospital, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy

Mikhail Egorov

Affiliation Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Naples, Italy

Maria Monti

Affiliation CEINGE Advanced Biotechnology and Department of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Federico II University, Napoli, Italy

Ester Valentina D’Addetta

Affiliation Medical Genetics Unit, IRCCS Casa Sollievo Della Sofferenza Hospital, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy

Bartolomeo Augello

Affiliation Medical Genetics Unit, IRCCS Casa Sollievo Della Sofferenza Hospital, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy

Flora Cozzolino

Affiliation CEINGE Advanced Biotechnology and Department of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Federico II University, Napoli, Italy

Alessia Calcagnì

Affiliation Medical Genetics Unit, IRCCS Casa Sollievo Della Sofferenza Hospital, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy

Andrea Fontana

Affiliation Unit of biostatistics, IRCCS Casa Sollievo Della Sofferenza Hospital, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy

Roman S. Polishchuk

Affiliation Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Naples, Italy

Gerard Didelot

Affiliation Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Alexandre Reymond

Affiliation Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Piero Pucci

Affiliation CEINGE Advanced Biotechnology and Department of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Federico II University, Napoli, Italy

Giuseppe Merla

g.merla@operapadrepio.it

Affiliation Medical Genetics Unit, IRCCS Casa Sollievo Della Sofferenza Hospital, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CF GM. Performed the experiments: CF LM BA AC EVD FC MM PP ME RSP. Analyzed the data: AF GM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GD AR. Wrote the paper: GM. Helped write paper: CF LM ME MM EVD BA FC AC AF RSP GD AR PP GM.