About the Authors

Michela Traglia

Contributed equally to this work with: Michela Traglia, Cinzia Sala

Affiliation Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano Italy

Cinzia Sala

Contributed equally to this work with: Michela Traglia, Cinzia Sala

Affiliation Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano Italy

Corrado Masciullo

Affiliation Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano Italy

Valeria Cverhova

Affiliation Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano Italy

Francesca Lori

Affiliation Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano Italy

Giorgio Pistis

Affiliation Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano Italy

Silvia Bione

Affiliations Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano Italy, Institute of Molecular Genetics-CNR, Pavia, Italy

Paolo Gasparini

Affiliation Medical Genetics, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Institute for Maternal and Child Health IRCCS-Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy

Sheila Ulivi

Affiliation Medical Genetics, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Institute for Maternal and Child Health IRCCS-Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy

Marina Ciullo

Affiliation Institute of Genetics and Biophysics”Adriano Buzzati-Traverso”, CNR, Napoli, Italy

Teresa Nutile

Affiliation Institute of Genetics and Biophysics”Adriano Buzzati-Traverso”, CNR, Napoli, Italy

Emanuele Bosi

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Diabetes & Endocrinology Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy

Marcella Sirtori

Affiliation Bone Metabolic Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy

Giovanna Mignogna

Affiliation Bone Metabolic Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy

Alessandro Rubinacci

Affiliation Bone Metabolic Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy

Iwan Buetti

Affiliation Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano Italy

Clara Camaschella

Affiliation Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano Italy

Enrico Petretto

Affiliations MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Daniela Toniolo

daniela.toniolo@hsr.it

Affiliations Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano Italy, Institute of Molecular Genetics-CNR, Pavia, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EP DT. Performed the experiments: MT CS CM VC FL GP SB MS GM IB. Analyzed the data: MT CS CM VC GP SB MS GM AR CC EP DT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CM PG SU MC TN EB IB. Wrote the paper: CC EP DT.