About the Authors

Arduino A. Mangoni

a.a.mangoni@abdn.ac.uk

Affiliation Division of Applied Medicine, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Angelo Zinellu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Ciriaco Carru

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

John R. Attia

Affiliation Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Mark McEvoy

Affiliation Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AAM MM. Performed the experiments: MM AZ CC JA. Analyzed the data: AAM MM AZ CC JA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AZ CC. Wrote the paper: AAM.