About the Authors

Stefania Byrou

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Molecular Genetics Thalassaemia Department, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus, The Cyprus School of Molecular Medicine, Nicosia, Cyprus

G. Mike Makrigiorgos

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Division of Medical Physics & Biophysics, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Agathoklis Christofides

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Centre Fetal Medicine Department, Archbishop Makarios III Hospital, Nicosia, Cyprus

Ioannis Kallikas

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ultrasound and fetal medicine centre, Nicosia, Cyprus

Thessalia Papasavva

Contributed equally to this work with: Thessalia Papasavva, Marina Kleanthous

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

thesalia@cing.ac.cy

‡ TP and MK are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Molecular Genetics Thalassaemia Department, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus, The Cyprus School of Molecular Medicine, Nicosia, Cyprus

Marina Kleanthous

Contributed equally to this work with: Thessalia Papasavva, Marina Kleanthous

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ TP and MK are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Molecular Genetics Thalassaemia Department, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus, The Cyprus School of Molecular Medicine, Nicosia, Cyprus

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.