About the Authors

Giorgia Girotto

giorgia.girotto@burlo.trieste.it

Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Dragana Vuckovic

Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Annalisa Buniello

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King’s College, London, United Kingdom

Beatriz Lorente-Cánovas

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King’s College, London, United Kingdom

Morag Lewis

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King’s College, London, United Kingdom

Paolo Gasparini

Affiliations Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy, Institute for Maternal and Child Health - IRCCS “Burlo Garofolo”, Trieste, Italy

Karen P. Steel

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King’s College, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PG KPS. Performed the experiments: GG DV AB BLC ML. Analyzed the data: GG DV AB KPS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PG KPS. Wrote the paper: GG DV KPS AB PG.