About the Authors

Rana Al-Sadi

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

ralsadi@pennstatehealth.psu.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Penn State University College of Medicine, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jessica Engers

Contributed equally to this work with: Jessica Engers, Mohammad Haque

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Penn State University College of Medicine, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Mohammad Haque

Contributed equally to this work with: Jessica Engers, Mohammad Haque

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Penn State University College of Medicine, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Steven King

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Penn State University College of Medicine, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Deemah Al-Omari

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Thomas Y. Ma

Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Penn State University College of Medicine, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.