About the Authors

Gianguido Cossellu

Contributed equally to this work with: Gianguido Cossellu, Valeria Motta

gianguido.cossellu@unimi.it

Affiliation Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via della Commenda 10, 20122, Milan, Italy

Valeria Motta

Contributed equally to this work with: Gianguido Cossellu, Valeria Motta

Affiliation EPIGET - Epidemiology, Epigenetics and Toxicology Lab, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Laura Dioni

Affiliation EPIGET - Epidemiology, Epigenetics and Toxicology Lab, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Laura Angelici

Affiliation EPIGET - Epidemiology, Epigenetics and Toxicology Lab, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Luisella Vigna

Affiliation Worker’s Health Protection and Promotion Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

Giampietro Farronato

Affiliation Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via della Commenda 10, 20122, Milan, Italy

Angela Cecilia Pesatori

Affiliations EPIGET - Epidemiology, Epigenetics and Toxicology Lab, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, Worker’s Health Protection and Promotion Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy, Epidemiology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

Valentina Bollati

Affiliation EPIGET - Epidemiology, Epigenetics and Toxicology Lab, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: VM GC. Data curation: LA. Formal analysis: LA. Funding acquisition: VB. Investigation: VM. Methodology: LD. Project administration: VB. Resources: VB. Software: VM. Supervision: LV GF ACP. Validation: LD. Visualization: VM. Writing – original draft: VM GC. Writing – review & editing: VM GC.