About the Authors
- Aggeliki Katsifa
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Affiliation Division of Immunology, Biomedical Sciences Research Center Alexander Fleming, Athens, Greece
- Eleanna Kaffe
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Affiliation Division of Immunology, Biomedical Sciences Research Center Alexander Fleming, Athens, Greece
- Nefeli Nikolaidou-Katsaridou
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Affiliation Division of Immunology, Biomedical Sciences Research Center Alexander Fleming, Athens, Greece
- Aris N. Economides
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Affiliation Genome Engineering Technologies Group and Skeletal Diseases TFA Group, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, New York, United States of America
- Susan Newbigging
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Affiliations Physiology and Experimental Medicine Research Program, the Hospital for Sick Children, Center for Phenogenomics, Toronto, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Colin McKerlie
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Affiliations Physiology and Experimental Medicine Research Program, the Hospital for Sick Children, Center for Phenogenomics, Toronto, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Vassilis Aidinis
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* E-mail: v.aidinis@fleming.gr
Affiliation Division of Immunology, Biomedical Sciences Research Center Alexander Fleming, Athens, Greece
Competing Interests
A. Economides is an employee of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. who provided the R26Cre mouse. There are no patents, products in development, or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: VA. Performed the experiments: AK EK NN-K. Analyzed the data: AK EK NN-K SN CM VA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AE. Wrote the paper: VA.