About the Authors

Marisa Sousa

Contributed equally to this work with: Marisa Sousa, Maria F. Servidoni

Affiliations BioFIG - Centre for Biodiversity, Functional and Integrative Genomics; Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, Department of Genetics - National Institute of Health, Lisboa, Portugal

Maria F. Servidoni

Contributed equally to this work with: Marisa Sousa, Maria F. Servidoni

Affiliations Gastrocentro - Endoscopy Unit - State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, Pediatrics Department - State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

Adriana M. Vinagre

Affiliation Faculty of Medical Sciences - State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

Anabela S. Ramalho

Affiliations BioFIG - Centre for Biodiversity, Functional and Integrative Genomics; Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, Department of Genetics - National Institute of Health, Lisboa, Portugal

Luciana C. Bonadia

Affiliation Faculty of Medical Sciences - State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

Verónica Felício

Affiliation BioFIG - Centre for Biodiversity, Functional and Integrative Genomics; Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Maria A. Ribeiro

Affiliation CIPED - Research Center in Pediatrics - State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

Inna Uliyakina

Affiliations BioFIG - Centre for Biodiversity, Functional and Integrative Genomics; Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, Department of Genetics - National Institute of Health, Lisboa, Portugal

Fernando A. Marson

Affiliation Faculty of Medical Sciences - State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

Arthur Kmit

Affiliation Faculty of Medical Sciences - State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

Silvia R. Cardoso

Affiliations Pediatrics Department - State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, Endoscopy Unit – University Hospital of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

José D. Ribeiro

Affiliations Pediatrics Department - State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, Faculty of Medical Sciences - State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, CIPED - Research Center in Pediatrics - State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

Carmen S. Bertuzzo

Affiliation Faculty of Medical Sciences - State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

Lisete Sousa

Affiliation CEAUL - Center of Statistics and Applications of the University of Lisboa; Department of Statistics and Operation Research, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Karl Kunzelmann

Affiliation Institut für Physiologie – University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Antônio F. Ribeiro

Affiliations Pediatrics Department - State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, Faculty of Medical Sciences - State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, CIPED - Research Center in Pediatrics - State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

Margarida D. Amaral

mdamaral@fc.ul.pt

Affiliations BioFIG - Centre for Biodiversity, Functional and Integrative Genomics; Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, Department of Genetics - National Institute of Health, Lisboa, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS MFS ASR CSB AFR KK MDA. Performed the experiments: MS MFS AMV LCB ASR VF MAR IU AK SRC. Analyzed the data: MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FAM LS JDR CSB KK AFR MDA. Wrote the paper: MS MDA. Interpreted data: MFS ASR KK AFR MDA. Revised the article: MFS AFR KK.