Sazzini, Marco
Abondio, Paolo
Sarno, Stefania
Gnecchi-Ruscone, Guido Alberto
Ragno, Matteo
Giuliani, Cristina
De Fanti, Sara
Ojeda-Granados, Claudia
Boattini, Alessio
Marquis, Julien
Valsesia, Armand
Carayol, Jerome
Raymond, Frederic
Pirazzini, Chiara
Marasco, Elena
Ferrarini, Alberto
Xumerle, Luciano
Collino, Sebastiano
Mari, Daniela
Arosio, Beatrice
Monti, Daniela
Passarino, Giuseppe
D’Aquila, Patrizia
Pettener, Davide
Luiselli, Donata
Castellani, Gastone
Delledonne, Massimo
Descombes, Patrick
Franceschi, Claudio
Garagnani, Paolo
Funding for this research was provided by:
Seventh Framework Programme (602757)
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (634821)
JPco-fuND (ADAGE)
Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (074-02-2018-330)
Italian Ministry of Education and Research (FFABR2017)
Article History
Received: 1 October 2019
Accepted: 1 April 2020
First Online: 22 May 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Informed consent related to the donation of blood specimens to be processed for the extraction of de-identified DNA samples to be used for population genomics analyses was obtained from all participants. Three local Ethics Committees (Bologna S. Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, protocol no. 2006061707, amendment on 08 November 2011; Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, protocol no. 2035, amendment on 30 November 2011; University of Calabria, approval on 9 September 2004, amendment on 24 November 2011) released ethics approvals. The study was also designed and conducted in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations and according to ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects stated by the WMA Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.