About the Authors

Nicola Fusco

Affiliation Division of Pathology, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda—Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

Elena Guerini-Rocco

Current address: Department of Pathology, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy

Affiliation Division of Pathology, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda—Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

Alessandro Del Gobbo

Affiliation Division of Pathology, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda—Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

Renato Franco

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Istituto Nazionale Tumori—IRCCS Fondazione Pascale, Naples, Italy

Federica Zito-Marino

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Istituto Nazionale Tumori—IRCCS Fondazione Pascale, Naples, Italy

Valentina Vaira

Affiliations Istituto Nazionale Genetica Molecolare “Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi”, Milan, Italy, Department of Pathophysiology and Organ Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Gaetano Bulfamante

Affiliation Division of Pathology, San Paolo Hospital; Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Giulia Ercoli

Affiliation Division of Pathology, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda—Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

Mario Nosotti

Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

Alessandro Palleschi

Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

Silvano Bosari

‡ These authors jointly directed this work.

Affiliations Division of Pathology, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda—Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy, Department of Pathophysiology and Organ Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Stefano Ferrero

stefano.ferrero@unimi.it

‡ These authors jointly directed this work.

Affiliations Division of Pathology, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda—Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy, Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NF SB SF. Performed the experiments: NF VV GE RF FZM. Analyzed the data: NF EGR ADG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GB MN AP. Wrote the paper: NF EGR SB SF. Supervised the work: SB SF.