About the Authors

Mattia Capulli

Contributed equally to this work with: Mattia Capulli, Rossella Costantini

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

Rossella Costantini

Contributed equally to this work with: Mattia Capulli, Rossella Costantini

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Unit of Biochemistry, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Stephan Sonntag

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations PolyGene AG, Rümlang, Switzerland, ETH Phenomics Center (EPIC), ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Antonio Maurizi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

Chiara Paganini

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, Unit of Biochemistry, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS, Pavia, Italy

Luca Monti

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Unit of Biochemistry, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Antonella Forlino

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Unit of Biochemistry, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Doron Shmerling

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation PolyGene AG, Rümlang, Switzerland

Anna Teti

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

Antonio Rossi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

antrossi@unipv.it

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Unit of Biochemistry, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Competing Interests

M. Capulli, R. Costantini, A. Maurizi, C. Paganini, L. Monti, A. Forlino, A. Teti, A. Rossi do not report disclosures. S. Sonntag and D. Shmerling are affiliated to PolyGene AG. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.