About the Authors

Kathleen Saavedra

Affiliations Advanced Center for Chronic Diseases (ACCDiS), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, UC—Center for Investigational Oncology (CITO), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Scientific and Technological Bioresource Nucleus (BIOREN), Centro de Estudios Genéticos e Inmunológicos (CEGIN) and Department of Pathology, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile

José Valbuena

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Wilda Olivares

Affiliations Advanced Center for Chronic Diseases (ACCDiS), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, UC—Center for Investigational Oncology (CITO), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

María José Marchant

Affiliation Instituto de Química, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile

Andrés Rodríguez

Affiliations Advanced Center for Chronic Diseases (ACCDiS), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, UC—Center for Investigational Oncology (CITO), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Verónica Torres-Estay

Current address: Department of Physiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Affiliation Advanced Center for Chronic Diseases (ACCDiS), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Gonzalo Carrasco-Avino

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Pathology Department Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Leda Guzmán

Affiliation Instituto de Química, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile

Francisco Aguayo

Affiliation Virology Program, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Juan Carlos Roa

Affiliations Advanced Center for Chronic Diseases (ACCDiS), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, UC—Center for Investigational Oncology (CITO), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Department of Pathology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Alejandro H. Corvalán

corvalan@med.puc.cl

Affiliations Advanced Center for Chronic Diseases (ACCDiS), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, UC—Center for Investigational Oncology (CITO), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Department of Hematology-Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KS MJM WO AR VTE GCA AHC. Performed the experiments: KS JV MJM WO AR VTE GCA. Analyzed the data: KS JV MJM WO AR VTE GCA LG FA JCR AHC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KS JV MJM GCA LG AHC. Wrote the paper: KS JV MJM WO VTE GCA LG FA JCR AHC.