About the Authors

Anatoly Kreinin

Affiliations Maale HaCarmel Mental Health Center, Tirat HaCarmel, affiliated to Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Serah Lisson

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel, Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

Elimelech Nesher

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel

Jenny Schneider

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel

Josef Bergman

Affiliations Maale HaCarmel Mental Health Center, Tirat HaCarmel, affiliated to Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Kamal Farhat

Affiliation The Nazareth Hospital, EMMS, affiliated with Faculty of Medicine, Bar Ilan University, Nazareth, Israel

Joseph Farah

Affiliation The Nazareth Hospital, EMMS, affiliated with Faculty of Medicine, Bar Ilan University, Nazareth, Israel

Flavio Lejbkowicz

Affiliations Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel, Clalit Health Services, National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, Israel

Gal Yadid

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

Leon Raskin

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Igor Koman

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel

Albert Pinhasov

albertpi@ariel.ac.il

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK AP FL. Performed the experiments: JB KF JF SL JS EN FL. Analyzed the data: AK EN LR GY IK AP. Wrote the paper: AP EN LR GY IK AK.