About the Authors

Gillian E. Walker

gillian.walker@med.unipmn.it

Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical Pediatrics, Department of Health Sciences, Università del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”, Novara, Italy

Roberta Ricotti

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics, Department of Health Sciences, Università del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”, Novara, Italy

Marta Roccio

Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical Pediatrics, Department of Health Sciences, Università del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”, Novara, Italy

Stefania Moia

Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical Pediatrics, Department of Health Sciences, Università del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”, Novara, Italy

Simonetta Bellone

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics, Department of Health Sciences, Università del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”, Novara, Italy

Flavia Prodam

Contributed equally to this work with: Flavia Prodam, Gianni Bona

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics, Department of Health Sciences, Università del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”, Novara, Italy

Gianni Bona

Contributed equally to this work with: Flavia Prodam, Gianni Bona

Affiliation Division of Pediatrics, Department of Health Sciences, Università del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”, Novara, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GEW FP GB. Performed the experiments: GEW MR SM. Analyzed the data: GEW RR SB FP. Wrote the paper: GEW FP GB.