About the Authors

Abdou Akkouche

Contributed equally to this work with: Abdou Akkouche, Sara Moodad

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Sara Moodad

Contributed equally to this work with: Abdou Akkouche, Sara Moodad

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Rita Hleihel

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

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Hala Skayneh

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Séverine Chambeyron

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, CNRS, UMR 9002, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France

Hiba El Hajj

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

he21@aub.edu.lb (HEH); bazarbac@aub.edu.lb (AB)

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pathology, Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Ali Bazarbachi

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

he21@aub.edu.lb (HEH); bazarbac@aub.edu.lb (AB)

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exists.