... review;BR and CS participated in the analysis and interpretationof the results obtained with the in- silico methods; MB par-ticipated in the design and discussions; IO conceived and coordinated the ... the genotyping, participated in the selectionof SNPs, analysis, and prepared the manuscript; PR and SSparticipated in the genotyping; AP coordinated the patients' accrual and updated the ... were combined into a single variable, the 'phe-notypic index' [17]. This index, with minimum and max-imum values of 1 and 5, represents the sum of pointsassigned to the following phenotypic...