About the Authors

Ummu Afeera Zainulabid

Contributed equally to this work with: Ummu Afeera Zainulabid, Aini Syahida Mat Yassim

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

Affiliations Faculty of Industrial Sciences and Technology, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Gambang, Pahang, Malaysia, Department of Internal Medicine, Kulliyyah of Medicine, International Islamic University of Malaysia, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia

Aini Syahida Mat Yassim

Contributed equally to this work with: Ummu Afeera Zainulabid, Aini Syahida Mat Yassim

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biovalence Sdn. Bhd., Petaling Jaya, Selangor

Mushtaq Hussain

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

fauzanahmad@ump.edu.my (HFA); joanchua@iium.edu.my (HSH); mushtaq.hussain@duhs.edu.pk (MH)

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Molecular Medicine Research Group, Dow Research Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedical Sciences, Dow College of Biotechnology, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan

Ayesha Aslam

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Molecular Medicine Research Group, Dow Research Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedical Sciences, Dow College of Biotechnology, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan

Sharmeen Nellisa Soffian

Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Industrial Sciences and Technology, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Gambang, Pahang, Malaysia

Mohamad Shafiq Mohd Ibrahim

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Paediatric and Dental Public Health, Kulliyyah of Dentistry, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia

Norhidayah Kamarudin

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Kulliyyah of Medicine, International Islamic University of Malaysia, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia

Mohd Nazli Kamarulzaman

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kulliyyah of Medicine, International Islamic University of Malaysia, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia

How Soon Hin

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

fauzanahmad@ump.edu.my (HFA); joanchua@iium.edu.my (HSH); mushtaq.hussain@duhs.edu.pk (MH)

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Kulliyyah of Medicine, International Islamic University of Malaysia, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia

Hajar Fauzan Ahmad

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

fauzanahmad@ump.edu.my (HFA); joanchua@iium.edu.my (HSH); mushtaq.hussain@duhs.edu.pk (MH)

Affiliations Faculty of Industrial Sciences and Technology, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Gambang, Pahang, Malaysia, Centre for Research in Advanced Tropical Bioscience (Biotropic Centre), Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Gambang, Pahang, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.