About the Authors

Nur Zarina Ali Hassan

Affiliation UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Norfilza Mohd Mokhtar

norfilza@ppukm.ukm.edu.my (NMM); rahmanj@ppukm.ukm.edu (RJ)

Affiliations UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Teow Kok Sin

Affiliation UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Isa Mohamed Rose

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Ismail Sagap

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Roslan Harun

Affiliations UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Rahman Jamal

norfilza@ppukm.ukm.edu.my (NMM); rahmanj@ppukm.ukm.edu (RJ)

Affiliation UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NMM RJ RH IMR IS. Performed the experiments: NAH TKS. Analyzed the data: NAH TKS NMM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RJ. Wrote the paper: NAH NMM RJ.