About the Authors

Rania H. Mahmoud

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tsneeem@gmail.com, rhs00@fayoum.edu.eg

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt

Nermeen A. Fouad

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt

Enas M. Hefzy

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Fayoum University, Cairo, Egypt

Olfat G. Shaker

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Tarek I. Ahmed

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt

Hoda A. Hussein

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt

Maha H. Nasr

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt

Othman M. Zaki

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Damietta University, Damietta, Egypt

Noha K. Abdelghaffar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt

Omayma O. Abdelaleem

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist