About the Authors

Abdelaziz Tlili

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

atlili@sharjah.ac.ae

Affiliations Department of Applied Biology, College of Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Human Genetics and Stem cell laboratory, Research Institute of Sciences and Engineering, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Abdullah Fahd Al Mutery

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Applied Biology, College of Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Mona Mahfood

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Applied Biology, College of Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Walaa Kamal Eddine Ahmad Mohamed

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Applied Biology, College of Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Khalid Bajou

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Applied Biology, College of Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Human Genetics and Stem cell laboratory, Research Institute of Sciences and Engineering, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.