About the Authors

Yashwanth Elumalai

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Faculty of Allied Health Science, Chettinad Hospital and Research Institute, Chettinad Academy of Research and Education, Kelambakkam, Tamil Nadu, India

Kathiresan Nachammai

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India

Kirubhanand Chandrasekaran

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, AIIMS, Nagpur, India

Langeswaran Kulanthaivel

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

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India

Sharon Benita Stephen

Roles Methodology, Project administration

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Faculty of Allied Health Science, Chettinad Hospital and Research Institute, Chettinad Academy of Research and Education, Kelambakkam, Tamil Nadu, India

Kanu Shil

Roles Data curation

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Faculty of Paramedical Sciences, Assam Down town University, Guwahati, Assam, India

Ram Kumar Anandan

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, School of Bioengineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu, India

Abdulhadi Ibrahim Bima

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Zeenath Khan

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Science, Prince Sultan Military College of Health Sciences, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Abdulhadi S. Burzangi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Noor A. Shaik

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Nuha Al-Rayes

Roles Supervision, Visualization

gowtham_phd@yahoo.com (GKS), nalrayes@kau.edu.sa (NA)

Affiliations Medical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Addulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Princess Al-Jawhara Al-Brahim Centre of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Gowtham Kumar Subbaraj

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

gowtham_phd@yahoo.com (GKS), nalrayes@kau.edu.sa (NA)

Affiliation Faculty of Allied Health Science, Chettinad Hospital and Research Institute, Chettinad Academy of Research and Education, Kelambakkam, Tamil Nadu, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.