Variants of ACAN are associated with severity of lumbar disc herniation in patients with chronic low back pain

• Romain Shanil Perera ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: romaingl@med.cmb.ac.lk

  Affiliation Department of Allied Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo 8, Sri Lanka

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9682-5642

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• Poruwalage Harsha Dissanayake,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Gangodawila, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka

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• Upul Senarath,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo 8, Sri Lanka

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• Lalith Sirimevan Wijayaratne,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Hospital of Sri Lanka, Colombo 10, Sri Lanka

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• Aranjan Lional Karunanayake,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

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• Vajira Harshadeva Weerabaddana Dissanayake

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Human Genetics Unit, Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo 8, Sri Lanka

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