About the Authors

Fazal Khan

Affiliations Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Center of Innovation in Personalized Medicine, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Farid Ahmed

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Peter Natesan Pushparaj

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Adel Abuzenadah

Affiliation Center of Innovation in Personalized Medicine, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Taha Kumosani

Affiliations Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Biochemistry Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Elie Barbour

Affiliations Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Department of Agriculture, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon

Mohammed AlQahtani

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Kalamegam Gauthaman

kgauthaman@kau.edu.sa

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FK KG AA TK EB. Performed the experiments: FK FA KG PNP. Analyzed the data: FK KG FA PNP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AA TK MA. Wrote the paper: FK KG PNP.