About the Authors

Unzela Ghulam

Contributed equally to this work with: Unzela Ghulam, Fizza Nazim, Nida Farooqui

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan

Fizza Nazim

Contributed equally to this work with: Unzela Ghulam, Fizza Nazim, Nida Farooqui

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Biosciences, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan, Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Nida Farooqui

Contributed equally to this work with: Unzela Ghulam, Fizza Nazim, Nida Farooqui

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Syed Rizwan-ul-Hasan

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, DHA Suffa University, Karachi, Pakistan

Muhammad Faraz Anwar

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Bahria University Medical & Dental College, Karachi, Pakistan

Khalid Ahmed

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Abid Jamal

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Cancer Foundation Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

Hammad Afzal Kayani

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan

Nouman Mughal

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, Department of Surgery, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Azhar Hussain

Roles Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Antonio Sarria-Santamera

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Nazarbayev University School of Medicine, Astana, Kazakhstan

Syed Hani Abidi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

m.haniabidi@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Nazarbayev University School of Medicine, Astana, Kazakhstan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.