About the Authors

Dario de Biase

Contributed equally to this work with: Dario de Biase, Michela Visani

dario.debiase@unibo.it

Affiliations Department of Patologia Sperimentale, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Department of Ematologia e Scienze Oncologiche, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Michela Visani

Contributed equally to this work with: Dario de Biase, Michela Visani

Affiliation Department of Patologia Sperimentale, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Luca Morandi

Affiliation Department of Ematologia e Scienze Oncologiche, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Gianluca Marucci

Affiliation Department of Ematologia e Scienze Oncologiche, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Cristian Taccioli

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Paul O'Gorman Cancer Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Serenella Cerasoli

Affiliation Anatomic Pathology of Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy

Agostino Baruzzi

Affiliation IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna and Department of Biomedical & Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Annalisa Pession

Affiliation Department of Patologia Sperimentale, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

the PERNO Study group

Membership of the PERNO Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DDB MV AP. Performed the experiments: DDB MV. Analyzed the data: DDB MV LM GM CT SC AB AP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AP AB. Wrote the paper: DDB MV AP. Statistical Analysis: CT.