Analysis of differential gene expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines in the nasopharyngeal milieu of mild & severe COVID-19 cases

• Unzela Ghulam ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Unzela Ghulam, Fizza Nazim, Nida Farooqui

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Fizza Nazim ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Unzela Ghulam, Fizza Nazim, Nida Farooqui

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Biosciences, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan, Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Nida Farooqui ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Unzela Ghulam, Fizza Nazim, Nida Farooqui

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Syed Rizwan-ul-Hasan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, DHA Suffa University, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Muhammad Faraz Anwar,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Bahria University Medical & Dental College, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Khalid Ahmed,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Abid Jamal,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Cancer Foundation Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Hammad Afzal Kayani,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Nouman Mughal,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, Department of Surgery, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Azhar Hussain,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Antonio Sarria-Santamera,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Nazarbayev University School of Medicine, Astana, Kazakhstan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5734-7468

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• Syed Hani Abidi

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: m.haniabidi@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Nazarbayev University School of Medicine, Astana, Kazakhstan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9497-0902

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