About the Authors

Loris De Cecco

Affiliation Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics, Department of Experimental Oncology and Molecular Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy

Matteo Capaia

Affiliation Laboratory of Biotherapy, IRCCS-AOU San Martino-IST, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genoa, Italy

Simona Zupo

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Diagnostics, IRCCS-AOU San Martino-IST, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genoa, Italy

Giovanna Cutrona

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Diagnostics, IRCCS-AOU San Martino-IST, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genoa, Italy

Serena Matis

Affiliation Scientific Direction, IRCCS-AOU San Martino-IST, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genoa, Italy

Antonella Brizzolara

Affiliation Laboratory of Biotherapy, IRCCS-AOU San Martino-IST, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genoa, Italy

Anna Maria Orengo

Affiliation Laboratory of Biotherapy, IRCCS-AOU San Martino-IST, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genoa, Italy

Michela Croce

Affiliation Laboratory of Biotherapy, IRCCS-AOU San Martino-IST, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genoa, Italy

Edoardo Marchesi

Affiliation Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics, Department of Experimental Oncology and Molecular Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy

Manlio Ferrarini

Affiliation Scientific Direction, IRCCS-AOU San Martino-IST, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genoa, Italy

Silvana Canevari

silvanodomenico.ferrini@hsanmartino.it (SF); silvana.canevari@istitutotumori.mi.it (SC)

Affiliation Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics, Department of Experimental Oncology and Molecular Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy

Silvano Ferrini

silvanodomenico.ferrini@hsanmartino.it (SF); silvana.canevari@istitutotumori.mi.it (SC)

Affiliation Laboratory of Biotherapy, IRCCS-AOU San Martino-IST, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genoa, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SF SC LDC. Performed the experiments: LDC EM MC AB AMO. Analyzed the data: LDC SZ GC SM. Wrote the paper: MF SF LDC SC.