About the Authors

Marius Ilie

Affiliations Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Pasteur Hospital, Nice, France, Human Biobank BB-0033-00025, Pasteur Hospital, Nice, France, IRCAN Team 3, INSERM U1081/UMR CNRS 7284, Faculty of Medicine of Nice, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France

Véronique Hofman

Affiliations Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Pasteur Hospital, Nice, France, Human Biobank BB-0033-00025, Pasteur Hospital, Nice, France, IRCAN Team 3, INSERM U1081/UMR CNRS 7284, Faculty of Medicine of Nice, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France

Elodie Long-Mira

Affiliations Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Pasteur Hospital, Nice, France, IRCAN Team 3, INSERM U1081/UMR CNRS 7284, Faculty of Medicine of Nice, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France

Eric Selva

Affiliation Human Biobank BB-0033-00025, Pasteur Hospital, Nice, France

Jean-Michel Vignaud

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Central Hospital, University of Nancy, Nancy, France

Bernard Padovani

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Pasteur Hospital, Nice, France

Jérôme Mouroux

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Pasteur Hospital, Nice, France

Charles-Hugo Marquette

Affiliations IRCAN Team 3, INSERM U1081/UMR CNRS 7284, Faculty of Medicine of Nice, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Pasteur Hospital, Nice, France

Paul Hofman

hofman.p@chu-nice.fr

Affiliations Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Pasteur Hospital, Nice, France, Human Biobank BB-0033-00025, Pasteur Hospital, Nice, France, IRCAN Team 3, INSERM U1081/UMR CNRS 7284, Faculty of Medicine of Nice, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MI CHM PH. Performed the experiments: MI VH ELM ES JMV BP JM CHM PH. Analyzed the data: MI PH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JM CHM PH. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: MI PH.