About the Authors

Montse Garcia-Lavandeira

Affiliation Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Víctor Quereda

Affiliation Cell Division and Cancer Group, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncologicas (CNIO), Madrid, Spain

Ignacio Flores

Affiliation Telomeres and Telomerase Group, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO), Madrid, Spain

Carmen Saez

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocio, Seville, Spain

Esther Diaz-Rodriguez

Affiliation Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Miguel A. Japon

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocio, Seville, Spain

Aymee K. Ryan

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, McGill University (MUHC), Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Maria A. Blasco

Affiliation Telomeres and Telomerase Group, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO), Madrid, Spain

Carlos Dieguez

Affiliations Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, CIBER Obesity & Nutrition (ISCIII), Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Marcos Malumbres

malumbres@cnio.es (MM); clara.alvarez@usc.es (CVA)

Affiliation Cell Division and Cancer Group, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncologicas (CNIO), Madrid, Spain

Clara V. Alvarez

malumbres@cnio.es (MM); clara.alvarez@usc.es (CVA)

Affiliation Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MGL VQ MAJ AKR MAB CD MM CVA. Performed the experiments: MGL VQ IF CS EDR. Analyzed the data: MGL VQ IF CS MAJ MM CVA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AKR MAB MM CVA. Wrote the paper: CD MM CVA. Managing and Providing funds for the research: CVA MAB CD MM.