About the Authors

Caterina Bason

Contributed equally to this work with: Caterina Bason, Renata Lorini, Claudio Lunardi

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Section of Internal Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Renata Lorini

Contributed equally to this work with: Caterina Bason, Renata Lorini, Claudio Lunardi

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Genova and Giannina Gaslini Institute, Genova, Italy

Claudio Lunardi

Contributed equally to this work with: Caterina Bason, Renata Lorini, Claudio Lunardi

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Section of Internal Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Marzia Dolcino

Affiliation Clinical and Experimental Immunology Unit, Giannina Gaslini Institute, Genova, Italy

Alessandro Giannattasio

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Genova and Giannina Gaslini Institute, Genova, Italy

Giuseppe d’Annunzio

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Genova and Giannina Gaslini Institute, Genova, Italy

Antonella Rigo

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Section of Hematology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Nicoletta Pedemonte

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Giannina Gaslini Institute, Genova, Italy

Roberto Corrocher

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Section of Internal Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Antonio Puccetti

antonio.puccetti@unige.it

Affiliations Clinical and Experimental Immunology Unit, Giannina Gaslini Institute, Genova, Italy, Department of Experimental Medicine, Section of Hystology, University of Genova, Genova, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Responsible for all the artwork and statistical analysis: MD. Conceived and designed the experiments: AP CL. Performed the experiments: CB AR NP. Analyzed the data: CL AP CB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RL AG GD. Wrote the paper: AP CL RC.