About the Authors

Ingrida Šaulienė

Affiliation Deptartment of Environmental Research, Siauliai University, Siauliai, Lithuania

Jūratė Greičiuvienė

Affiliation Deptartment of Environmental Research, Siauliai University, Siauliai, Lithuania

Laura Šukienė

Affiliation Deptartment of Environmental Research, Siauliai University, Siauliai, Lithuania

Neringa Juškevičiūtė

Affiliation Deptartment of Environmental Research, Siauliai University, Siauliai, Lithuania

Christian Benner

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Auksė Zinkevičienė

Affiliation Department of Immunology, State Research Institute Centre for Innovative Medicine, Vilnius, Lithuania

Samuli Ripatti

Affiliations Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Kati Donner

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Denis Kainov

denis.kainov@helsinki.fi

Affiliations Deptartment of Environmental Research, Siauliai University, Siauliai, Lithuania, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DK IS. Performed the experiments: IS JG LS NJ CB AZ SR KD DK. Analyzed the data: IS LS CB SR KD DK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SR KD CB JG. Wrote the paper: IS JG LS NJ CB AZ SR KD DK.