About the Authors

Giada Sebastiani

Affiliations Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Kostas Gkouvatsos

Affiliations Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Carmen Maffettone

Affiliations Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Graziella Busatto

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Sciences and Special Therapies, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Maria Guido

Affiliations Department of Diagnostic Sciences and Special Therapies, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, Pathology Department, Azienda ULSS 15 Veneto Region, Italy

Kostas Pantopoulos

kostas.pantopoulos@mcgill.ca

Affiliations Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GS KP. Performed the experiments: GS KG CM GB. Analyzed the data: GS MG. Wrote the paper: KP.