Paolo Maccallini: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Investigation
Francesca Bavasso: Role: Investigation
Livia Scatolini: Role: Investigation
Elisabetta Bucciarelli: Role: Investigation
Gemma Noviello:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5212-0803
Role: Investigation
Veronica Lisi: Role: Investigation
Valeria Palumbo: Role: Investigation
Simone D'Angeli:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3971-7872
Role: Investigation
Stefano Cacchione: Role: Investigation
Giovanni Cenci:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9628-1411
Role: Investigation
Laura Ciapponi:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0817-1862
Role: Investigation
James G. Wakefield: Role: Formal analysisRole: Investigation
Maurizio Gatti:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3777-300X
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: Writing – original draft
Grazia Daniela Raffa:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5072-5240
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: Writing –
original draft
Giovanni Bosco: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS Genet
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS Genet
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosgen
Title:
PLoS Genetics
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Print):
1553-7390
ISSN
(Electronic):
1553-7404
Publication date
(Electronic):
26
May
2020
Publication date Collection:
May
2020
Volume: 16
Issue: 5
Electronic Location Identifier: e1008815
Affiliations
[1
]
Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “C Darwin”, Sapienza University of Rome,
Rome, Italy
[2
]
Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari (IBPM) del CNR, Rome, Italy
[3
]
Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
[4
]
Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Istituto Pasteur, Rome, Italy
[5
]
Biosciences/Living Systems Institute, College of Life and Environmental Sciences,
University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, UNITED STATES
Author notes
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PGENETICS-D-20-00213
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008815
PMC ID: 7289441
PubMed ID: 32453722
SO-VID: 74b55ad3-c6ca-4a71-b1e6-54c1b47fd062
Copyright © © 2020 Maccallini et al
License:
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the original author and source are credited.
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002426, Fondazione Telethon;
Award ID: GPP13147
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5072-5240
Grazia Daniela Raffa
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004588, Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti;
Award ID: under 40
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5072-5240
Grazia Daniela Raffa
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100005010, Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro;
Award ID: AIRC, IG 20528
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3777-300X
Maurizio Gatti
This work was supported by grants from Telethon (GPP13147;
https://www.telethon.it/) and Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti (
http://www.istitutopasteuritalia.it/) to G.D.R., and Associazione Italiana Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC, IG 20528;
https://www.airc.it/) to M.G. G.N. was supported by fellowships from Regione Lazio (Torno Subito 2018;
http://www.tornosubito.laziodisu.it/) and from Sapienza, University of Rome (
https://www.uniroma1.it). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision
to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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