About the Authors

Misbah Anwar

Contributed equally to this work with: Misbah Anwar, Abdul Waheed

Roles Data curation, Software, Validation

Affiliation Dow-DOGANA Advanced Molecular Genetics & Genomics Diseases Research & Treatment Centre, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan

Abdul Waheed

Contributed equally to this work with: Misbah Anwar, Abdul Waheed

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Dow-DOGANA Advanced Molecular Genetics & Genomics Diseases Research & Treatment Centre, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan

Tehseen Fatima

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Dow College of Biotechnology, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan

Sadaf Khan

Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Dow College of Biotechnology, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan

Mariyam Shahzad

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Dow College of Biotechnology, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan

Talat Roome

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Dow Institute for Advanced Biological & Animal Research (DIABAR), Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan

Ibrar Ahmed

Roles Resources, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Seil Kim

Roles Resources, Software, Validation

Affiliation Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Zohaib Ul Hassan

Roles Methodology, Software

Affiliation Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Muhammad Aurongzeb

Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology, Hamdard University, Karachi, Pakistan

Mohammed Saeed Quraishy

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan

Salman Ahmed Khan

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

dr.salman@duhs.edu.pk

Affiliations Dow-DOGANA Advanced Molecular Genetics & Genomics Diseases Research & Treatment Centre, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan, Department of Molecular Medicine, Dow College of Biotechnology, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.