About the Authors

Francesca Gugliesi

Contributed equally to this work with: Francesca Gugliesi, Mandar Bawadekar

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Pediatric Sciences, University of Turin, Medical School, Turin, Italy

Mandar Bawadekar

Contributed equally to this work with: Francesca Gugliesi, Mandar Bawadekar

Affiliations Department of Translational Medicine, University of Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”, Medical School, Novara, Italy, Interdisciplinary Research Center of Autoimmune Diseases, Department of Translational Medicine, University of Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”, Medical School, Novara, Italy

Marco De Andrea

Affiliations Department of Public Health and Pediatric Sciences, University of Turin, Medical School, Turin, Italy, Department of Translational Medicine, University of Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”, Medical School, Novara, Italy

Valentina Dell’Oste

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Pediatric Sciences, University of Turin, Medical School, Turin, Italy

Valeria Caneparo

Affiliations Department of Translational Medicine, University of Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”, Medical School, Novara, Italy, Interdisciplinary Research Center of Autoimmune Diseases, Department of Translational Medicine, University of Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”, Medical School, Novara, Italy

Angela Tincani

Affiliation Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Spedali Civili and University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

Marisa Gariglio

Affiliations Department of Translational Medicine, University of Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”, Medical School, Novara, Italy, Interdisciplinary Research Center of Autoimmune Diseases, Department of Translational Medicine, University of Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”, Medical School, Novara, Italy

Santo Landolfo

santo.landolfo@unito.it

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Pediatric Sciences, University of Turin, Medical School, Turin, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL MG. Performed the experiments: FG MB MDA VDO VC. Analyzed the data: FG MB MDA VDO VC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AT. Wrote the paper: SL MG.