About the Authors

Anna D'Angelo

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna D'Angelo, Amalia De Angelis

Affiliation Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Via Pietro Castellino 111, Naples, Italy

Amalia De Angelis

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna D'Angelo, Amalia De Angelis

Affiliation Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Via Pietro Castellino 111, Naples, Italy

Bice Avallone

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

Immacolata Piscopo

Affiliation Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Via Pietro Castellino 111, Naples, Italy

Roberta Tammaro

Affiliation Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Via Pietro Castellino 111, Naples, Italy

Michèle Studer

Current address: Institute of Biology Valrose, iBV; UMR INSERM1091/CNRS7277/UNS; University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, UFR Sciences, Nice, France

Affiliation Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Via Pietro Castellino 111, Naples, Italy

Brunella Franco

franco@tigem.it

Affiliations Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Via Pietro Castellino 111, Naples, Italy, Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Federico II University, Naples, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: A. D'Angelo MS BF. Performed the experiments: A. De Angelis RT BA IP. Analyzed the data: A. D'Angelo BA MS BF. Wrote the paper: A. D'Angelo MS BF.