About the Authors
- Maha Saber-Ayad
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft
* E-mail: msaber@sharjah.ac.ae (MS); rhamoudi@sharjah.ac.ae (RH)
Affiliations College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, College of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
- Shaista Manzoor
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Roles Methodology, Validation
Affiliations College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
- Hadia Radwan
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Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics Department, College of Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
- Sarah Hammoudeh
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Roles Methodology, Validation, Visualization
Affiliations College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
- Rahaf Wardeh
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Roles Investigation, Project administration
Affiliation College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
- Ahmed Ashraf
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization
Affiliation College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
- Hussein Jabbar
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology
Affiliation College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
- Rifat Hamoudi
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Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: msaber@sharjah.ac.ae (MS); rhamoudi@sharjah.ac.ae (RH)
Affiliations College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
Competing Interests
The authors declare that they also received funding from a [Boehringer Ingelheim] as a students’ grant to train the students in the molecular biology and genetics lab. The grant supported purchasing some consumables for this task. It is not related by any means to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development, marketed products, etc. We hereby confirm that this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.