About the Authors

Korcan Demir

Contributed equally to this work with: Korcan Demir, Walaa E. Kattan

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Dr. Behçet Uz Children’s Hospital, İzmir, Turkey

Walaa E. Kattan

Contributed equally to this work with: Korcan Demir, Walaa E. Kattan

Affiliations College of Science and General Studies, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Department of Genetics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Minjing Zou

Affiliation Department of Genetics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Erdem Durmaz

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Sifa University, Bornova Health Application and Research Center, İzmir, Turkey

Huda BinEssa

Affiliation Department of Genetics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Özlem Nalbantoğlu

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Dr. Behçet Uz Children’s Hospital, İzmir, Turkey

Roua A. Al-Rijjal

Affiliation Department of Genetics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Brian Meyer

Affiliation Department of Genetics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Behzat Özkan

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Dr. Behçet Uz Children’s Hospital, İzmir, Turkey

Yufei Shi

yufei@kfshrc.edu.sa

Affiliation Department of Genetics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KD ED YS. Performed the experiments: WEK MZ HB ÖN RAA BM BÖ. Analyzed the data: KD YS WEK MZ. Wrote the paper: KD MZ YS.