About the Authors

Ohoud Subhi

Contributed equally to this work with: Ohoud Subhi, Hans-Juergen Schulten

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research, Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Hans-Juergen Schulten

Contributed equally to this work with: Ohoud Subhi, Hans-Juergen Schulten

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

hschulten@kau.edu.sa

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research, Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Nadia Bagatian

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research, Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Roa'a Al-Dayini

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research, Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Sajjad Karim

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Supervision

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research, Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Sherin Bakhashab

Roles Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Center of Innovation in Personalized Medicine, Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Reem Alotibi

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research, Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Alaa Al-Ahmadi

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research, Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Manar Ata

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research, Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Aisha Elaimi

Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Center of Innovation in Personalized Medicine, Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Saad Al-Muhayawi

Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Majid Mansouri

Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Khalid Al-Ghamdi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Osman Abdel Hamour

Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Surgery, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Awatif Jamal

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Jaudah Al-Maghrabi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Department of Pathology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Mohammed Hussain Al-Qahtani

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research, Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.