Prospero Civita: Role: ConceptualizationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – review
& editing
Michele Menicagli: Role: Data curationRole: Investigation
Claudia Scopelliti: Role: Investigation
Francesca Lessi: Role: Investigation
Francesca Millanta: Role: Data curationRole: Investigation
Sara Borsacchi: Role: Investigation
Francesca Parisi: Role: InvestigationRole: Writing – original draft
Giulia Freer: Role: Investigation
Mauro Pistello: Role: ConceptualizationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Chiara Maria Mazzanti: Role: ConceptualizationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Alessandro Poli:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1254-5772
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review
& editing
Yi Li: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
24
July
2018
Publication date Collection: 2018
Volume: 13
Issue: 7
Electronic Location Identifier: e0200839
Affiliations
[1
]
Fondazione Pisana per la Scienza, Pisa, Italia
[2
]
Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italia
[3
]
Dipartimento di Ricerca Traslazionale e delle Nuove Tecnologie in Medicina e Chirurgia,
Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italia
Baylor College of Medicine, UNITED STATES
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
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Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-18-08397
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200839
PMC ID: 6057629
PubMed ID: 30040851
SO-VID: 186d4ca2-807c-46ae-bf9f-4ff550b6ce37
Copyright © © 2018 Civita et al
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Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100007514, Università di Pisa;
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1254-5772
Alessandro Poli
This work was supported by Università di Pisa grant no. 599999_2017_Neoplasie_Mammarie
to AP. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision
to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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