About the Authors

Shing Cheng Tan

Contributed equally to this work with: Shing Cheng Tan, Teck Yew Low

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

sctan@ukm.edu.my, shingchengtan@gmail.com (SCT); ayoncx70@yahoo.com (MAI)

Affiliation UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Teck Yew Low

Contributed equally to this work with: Shing Cheng Tan, Teck Yew Low

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Hafiz Muhammad Jafar Hussain

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

Mohamad Ayub Khan Sharzehan

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Hilary Sito

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Hamed Kord-Varkaneh

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, Student Research Committee, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Md Asiful Islam

Roles Writing – review & editing

sctan@ukm.edu.my, shingchengtan@gmail.com (SCT); ayoncx70@yahoo.com (MAI)

Affiliation Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.