About the Authors
- Valerio Pazienza
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Contributed equally to this work with: Valerio Pazienza, Annamaria la Torre
Affiliation Gastroenterology, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy
- Annamaria la Torre
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Contributed equally to this work with: Valerio Pazienza, Annamaria la Torre
Affiliation Laboratory of Oncology, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy
- Filomena Baorda
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Affiliation Medical Genetics, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy
- Michela Alfarano
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Affiliation Medical Genetics, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy
- Massimiliano Chetta
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Molecular Stamping (Fondazione Bruno Kessler), Povo (TN), Italy
- Lucia Anna Muscarella
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Affiliation Laboratory of Oncology, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy
- Claudia Battista
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Affiliation Endocrinology, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy
- Massimiliano Copetti
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Affiliation Unit of Biostatistics, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy
- Dieter Kotzot
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Affiliation Division of Human Genetics, Department of Medical Genetics, Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
- Klaus Kapelari
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Affiliation Clinical Department of Pediatrics, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
- Dalia Al-Abdulrazzaq
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Current address: Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Kusiel Perlman
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Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Etienne Sochett
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Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- David E. C. Cole
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Affiliation Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Medicine and Genetics, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Fabio Pellegrini
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Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology of Diabetes and Chronic Diseases, Consorzio Mario Negri Sud, Santa Maria Imbaro (CH), Italy
- Lucie Canaff
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Affiliation Calcium Research Laboratory and Hormones and Cancer Research Unit, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Geoffrey N. Hendy
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Affiliation Calcium Research Laboratory and Hormones and Cancer Research Unit, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Leonardo D’Agruma
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Affiliation Medical Genetics, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy
- Leopoldo Zelante
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Affiliation Medical Genetics, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy
- Massimo Carella
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Affiliation Medical Genetics, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy
- Alfredo Scillitani
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Affiliation Endocrinology, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy
- Vito Guarnieri
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* E-mail: v.guarnieri@operapadrepio.it
Affiliation Medical Genetics, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: VP AlT LAM VG. Performed the experiments: VP AlT FB MA VG. Analyzed the data: VP AlT M. Chetta LAM LC LDA M. Carella. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: M. Chetta M. Copetti FP. Wrote the manuscript: VP AS VG. Acquisition of clinical data: CB DK KK DAA KP ES LZ AS. Revising the article critically for important intellectual content: DECC GNH AS VG.