About the Authors

R. Alessia Battista

Contributed equally to this work with: R. Alessia Battista, Massimo Resnati

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliations Age Related Diseases Unit, Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano, Italy, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy

Massimo Resnati

Contributed equally to this work with: R. Alessia Battista, Massimo Resnati

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Age Related Diseases Unit, Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy

Cecilia Facchi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Age Related Diseases Unit, Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano, Italy

Elena Ruggieri

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Age Related Diseases Unit, Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano, Italy

Floriana Cremasco

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Age Related Diseases Unit, Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano, Italy

Francesca Paradiso

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Age Related Diseases Unit, Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano, Italy

Ugo Orfanelli

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Age Related Diseases Unit, Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy

Leone Giordano

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy

Mario Bussi

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliations Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano, Italy, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy

Simone Cenci

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

cenci.simone@hsr.it (S.C.); milan.enrico@hsr.it (E.M.)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Age Related Diseases Unit, Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano, Italy

Enrico Milan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

cenci.simone@hsr.it (S.C.); milan.enrico@hsr.it (E.M.)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Age Related Diseases Unit, Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.