About the Authors

Jamal Sabir M. Sabir

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliations Center of Excellence in Bionanoscience Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Genomics and Biotechnology Section and Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Abdelfatteh El Omri

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliations Center of Excellence in Bionanoscience Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Genomics and Biotechnology Section and Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Babajan Banaganapalli

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization

Affiliations Department of Genetic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Princess Al-Jawhara Center of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Nada Aljuaid

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Genomics and Biotechnology Section and Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Abdulkader M. Shaikh Omar

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Abdulmalik Altaf

Roles Methodology, Validation, Visualization

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

Nahid H. Hajrah

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources

Affiliations Center of Excellence in Bionanoscience Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Genomics and Biotechnology Section and Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Houda Zrelli

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center of Excellence in Bionanoscience Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Genomics and Biotechnology Section and Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Leila Arfaoui

Roles Resources, Software

Affiliation Clinical Nutrition Department, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Ramu Elango

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Genetic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Princess Al-Jawhara Center of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Mona G. Alharbi

Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Alawiah M. Alhebshi

Roles Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Robert K. Jansen

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center of Excellence in Bionanoscience Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States of America

Noor A. Shaik

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Genetic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Princess Al-Jawhara Center of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Muhummadh Khan

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mkmkhan@kau.edu.sa

Affiliations Center of Excellence in Bionanoscience Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Genomics and Biotechnology Section and Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.