About the Authors

Lamyaa Alghofaili

Contributed equally to this work with: Lamyaa Alghofaili, Hannah Almubarak

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliations Translational Cancer Research Section, Department of Molecular Oncology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Alfaisal University Medical School, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Hannah Almubarak

Contributed equally to this work with: Lamyaa Alghofaili, Hannah Almubarak

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Current address: Department of Biochemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Affiliation Translational Cancer Research Section, Department of Molecular Oncology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Khawlah Gassem

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Translational Cancer Research Section, Department of Molecular Oncology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Syed S. Islam

Roles Methodology, Software

Affiliation Translational Cancer Research Section, Department of Molecular Oncology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Serdar Coskun

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Namik Kaya

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Genetics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Bedri Karakas

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

bedrik@yahoo.com

Affiliation Translational Cancer Research Section, Department of Molecular Oncology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.