About the Authors

Francesca Anedda

Affiliations Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Institute of Neurogenetics and Neuropharmacology - CNR, Monserrato, Italy

Marco Zucchelli

Affiliation Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Danika Schepis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology Tumor Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Anna Hellquist

Affiliation Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Lucia Corrado

Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, University of Eastern Piedmont and IRCAD, Novara, Italy

Sandra D'Alfonso

Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, University of Eastern Piedmont and IRCAD, Novara, Italy

Adnane Achour

Affiliations Department of Microbiology Tumor Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Center for Infectious Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Gerald McInerney

Affiliation Department of Microbiology Tumor Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Alejandro Bertorello

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Mikael Lördal

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Ragnar Befrits

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Jan Björk

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Francesca Bresso

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Leif Törkvist

Affiliation Department for Clinical Science Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Jonas Halfvarson

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden, School of Health and Medical Sciences, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

Juha Kere

Contributed equally to this work with: Juha Kere, Mauro D'Amato

maurodamato@ki.se (MD); juhakere@ki.se (JK)

Affiliations Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Center for Biosciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki, and Folkhälsan Institute of Genetics, Helsinki, Finland, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden

Mauro D'Amato

Contributed equally to this work with: Juha Kere, Mauro D'Amato

maurodamato@ki.se (MD); juhakere@ki.se (JK)

Affiliation Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FA MZ AB JK MD. Performed the experiments: FA MZ DS AH LC SD AA GM AB MD. Analyzed the data: FA MZ DS AH LC SD AA GM AB JK MD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LC SD ML RB JB FB LT JH JK MD. Wrote the paper: FA MZ AB JK MD. Recruited and characterized patients and controls: LC SD ML RB JB FB LT JH.