About the Authors

Angeli Ambayya

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

Affiliations Department of Haematology, School of Medical Sciences, Health Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia, Clinical Haematology Referral Laboratory, Haematology Department, Hospital Ampang, Ampang, Selangor, Malaysia

Rozaimi Razali

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

Sarina Sulong

Roles Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Human Genome Centre, School of Medical Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, Health Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia

Yee Yee Yap

Roles Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Haematology Referral Laboratory, Haematology Department, Hospital Ampang, Ampang, Selangor, Malaysia

Veena Selvaratnam

Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Haematology Referral Laboratory, Haematology Department, Hospital Ampang, Ampang, Selangor, Malaysia

Jameela Sathar

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Haematology Referral Laboratory, Haematology Department, Hospital Ampang, Ampang, Selangor, Malaysia

Rosline Hassan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

roslin@usm.my

Affiliations Department of Haematology, School of Medical Sciences, Health Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia, Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia

Competing Interests

All authors declare that there is no competing interest.