About the Authors

Daniele Campa

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniele Campa, Francesco De Rango, Giuseppe Passarino, Roberto Barale

d.campa@dkfz.de

Affiliation Genomic Epidemiology Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Francesco De Rango

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniele Campa, Francesco De Rango, Giuseppe Passarino, Roberto Barale

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy

Maura Carrai

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Paolina Crocco

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy

Alberto Montesanto

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy

Federico Canzian

Affiliation Genomic Epidemiology Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Giuseppina Rose

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy

Cosmeri Rizzato

Affiliation Genomic Epidemiology Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Giuseppe Passarino

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniele Campa, Francesco De Rango, Giuseppe Passarino, Roberto Barale

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy

Roberto Barale

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniele Campa, Francesco De Rango, Giuseppe Passarino, Roberto Barale

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DC RB. Performed the experiments: MC PC CR DC. Analyzed the data: FDR AM. Wrote the paper: FC GR DC GP.