About the Authors

Niloofar Khairkhah

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

‡ NK and AB are the first authors to this work.

Affiliations Department of Hepatitis and AIDS, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran, Iranian Comprehensive Hemophilia Care Center, Tehran, Iran, Department of Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran

Azam Bolhassani

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

azam.bolhassani@yahoo.com, A_bolhasani@pasteur.ac.ir

‡ NK and AB are the first authors to this work.

Affiliation Department of Hepatitis and AIDS, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Elnaz Agi

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Iranian Comprehensive Hemophilia Care Center, Tehran, Iran

Ali Namvar

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Iranian Comprehensive Hemophilia Care Center, Tehran, Iran

Arash Nikyar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Hepatitis and AIDS, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.