About the Authors

Sara Reza

sara_qmc@hotmail.com

Affiliation Pathology Department, Quaid-e-Azam Medical College, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Asma Shaukat

Affiliation Pathology Department, Quaid-e-Azam Medical College, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Tariq M. Arain

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

Qasim Sarwar Riaz

Affiliation Department of Medicine, St. John Providence Health System, Warren, Michigan, United States of America

Maria Mahmud

Affiliation Biology Department, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Drafting and revising the article critically: SR AS TMA QSR MM. Final approval of the version to be published: SR AS TMA QSR MM. Conceived and designed the experiments: SR AS QSR MM. Performed the experiments: SR AS TMA QSR. Analyzed the data: SR AS QSR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SR AS QSR. Wrote the paper: SR AS TMA QSR MM.