About the Authors

Mobin Ghazaiean

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

dr.mobin.gh@gmail.com

Affiliations Student Research Committee, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran, Gut and Liver Research Center, Non-communicable Disease Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran

Hadi Darvishi-Khezri

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

Affiliation Thalassemia Research Center (TRC), Hemoglobinopathy Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran

Behnam Najafi

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

Affiliation Student Research Committee, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran

Hossein Karami

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Thalassemia Research Center (TRC), Hemoglobinopathy Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran

Mehrnoush Kosaryan

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Thalassemia Research Center (TRC), Hemoglobinopathy Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.