About the Authors

Reza Taherian

Contributed equally to this work with: Reza Taherian, Maryam Karimi Ghahfarokhi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Maryam Karimi Ghahfarokhi

Contributed equally to this work with: Reza Taherian, Maryam Karimi Ghahfarokhi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Farid Zayeri

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

fzayeri@gmail.com

Affiliation Proteomics Research Center, Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Allied Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.