About the Authors

Alessandro Apollo

Contributed equally to this work with: Alessandro Apollo, Valerio Ortenzi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

alessandro.apollo@hotmail.com

Affiliation Genetic Unit of Biology Department, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Valerio Ortenzi

Contributed equally to this work with: Alessandro Apollo, Valerio Ortenzi

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Cristian Scatena

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Katia Zavaglia

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Paolo Aretini

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Section of Cancer Genomics, Fondazione Pisana per la Scienza, Pisa, Italy

Francesca Lessi

Roles Validation

Affiliation Section of Cancer Genomics, Fondazione Pisana per la Scienza, Pisa, Italy

Sara Franceschi

Roles Validation

Affiliation Section of Cancer Genomics, Fondazione Pisana per la Scienza, Pisa, Italy

Sara Tomei

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Omics Core and Biorepository, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar

Carlo Alberto Sepich

Roles Resources

Affiliation Division of Urology, Versilia Hospital, Lido di Camaiore, Italy

Paolo Viacava

Roles Resources

Affiliation Division of Pathology, Hospital of Livorno, Livorno, Italy

Chiara Maria Mazzanti

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Section of Cancer Genomics, Fondazione Pisana per la Scienza, Pisa, Italy

Antonio Giuseppe Naccarato

Roles Resources, Supervision

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.