About the Authors

Elena Grassi

Contributed equally to this work with: Elena Grassi, Ettore Zapparoli

Affiliation Dept. of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Ettore Zapparoli

Contributed equally to this work with: Elena Grassi, Ettore Zapparoli

¤ Current address: Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Udine and Institute of Applied Genomics (IGA), Udine, Italy

Affiliation Dept. of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Ivan Molineris

Affiliation Dept. of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Paolo Provero

paolo.provero@unito.it

Affiliations Dept. of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy, Center for Translational Genomics and Bioinformatics, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EG IM PP. Performed the experiments: EG EZ IM PP. Analyzed the data: EG EZ IM PP. Wrote the paper: EG EZ IM PP.