About the Authors

Cynthia Al Hageh

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Université de Paris, INSERM UMRS 1124, Paris, France, Department of Natural Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon

Ryan Rahy

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon

Georges Khazen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon

Francois Brial

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Université de Paris, INSERM UMRS 1124, Paris, France

Rony S. Khnayzer

Contributed equally to this work with: Rony S. Khnayzer, Dominique Gauguier, Pierre A. Zalloua

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

dominique.gauguier@inserm.fr (DG); rony.khnayzer@lau.edu.lb (RSK); pierre.zalloua@balamand.edu.lb (PAZ)

Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon

Dominique Gauguier

Contributed equally to this work with: Rony S. Khnayzer, Dominique Gauguier, Pierre A. Zalloua

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

dominique.gauguier@inserm.fr (DG); rony.khnayzer@lau.edu.lb (RSK); pierre.zalloua@balamand.edu.lb (PAZ)

Affiliations Université de Paris, INSERM UMRS 1124, Paris, France, McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada

Pierre A. Zalloua

Contributed equally to this work with: Rony S. Khnayzer, Dominique Gauguier, Pierre A. Zalloua

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

dominique.gauguier@inserm.fr (DG); rony.khnayzer@lau.edu.lb (RSK); pierre.zalloua@balamand.edu.lb (PAZ)

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Balamand, Amioun, Lebanon

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.