About the Authors

Gizem Alkurt

Contributed equally to this work with: Gizem Alkurt, Ahmet Murt, Zeki Aydin, Ozge Tatli

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Genomic Laboratory (GLAB), Umraniye Teaching and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey

Ahmet Murt

Contributed equally to this work with: Gizem Alkurt, Ahmet Murt, Zeki Aydin, Ozge Tatli

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nephrology, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey

Zeki Aydin

Contributed equally to this work with: Gizem Alkurt, Ahmet Murt, Zeki Aydin, Ozge Tatli

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Darica Farabi Teaching and Research Hospital, Kocaeli, Turkey

Ozge Tatli

Contributed equally to this work with: Gizem Alkurt, Ahmet Murt, Zeki Aydin, Ozge Tatli

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

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Istanbul, Turkey

Nihat Bugra Agaoglu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Genomic Laboratory (GLAB), Umraniye Teaching and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey

Arzu Irvem

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Umraniye Teaching and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey

Mehtap Aydin

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Umraniye Teaching and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey

Ridvan Karaali

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Disease, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey

Mustafa Gunes

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Urology, Darica Farabi Teaching and Research Hospital, Kocaeli, Turkey

Batuhan Yesilyurt

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Health Institutes of Turkey (TUSEB), Istanbul, Turkey

Hasan Turkez

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Biology, Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey

Adil Mardinoglu

Roles Supervision

Affiliations Science for Life Laboratory, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, Faculty of Dentistry, Centre for Host-Microbiome Interactions, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Mehmet Doganay

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Lokman Hekim University, Ankara, Turkey

Filiz Basinoglu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Supervision

levent.doganay@saglik.gov.tr (HLD); gddoganay@itu.edu.tr (GDD); nseyahi@yahoo.com (NS); fbasinoglu@yahoo.com (FB)

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry, Darica Farabi Teaching and Research Hospital, Kocaeli, Turkey

Nurhan Seyahi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Supervision

levent.doganay@saglik.gov.tr (HLD); gddoganay@itu.edu.tr (GDD); nseyahi@yahoo.com (NS); fbasinoglu@yahoo.com (FB)

Affiliation Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nephrology, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey

Gizem Dinler Doganay

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

levent.doganay@saglik.gov.tr (HLD); gddoganay@itu.edu.tr (GDD); nseyahi@yahoo.com (NS); fbasinoglu@yahoo.com (FB)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

Hamdi Levent Doganay

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

levent.doganay@saglik.gov.tr (HLD); gddoganay@itu.edu.tr (GDD); nseyahi@yahoo.com (NS); fbasinoglu@yahoo.com (FB)

Affiliation Genomic Laboratory (GLAB), Umraniye Teaching and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.