Fatima, Sehrish http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6824-2677
Khan, Bushra
Khan, Obaid Yusuf http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5596-2122
Amjad, Maryam http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-1610
Zehra, Sitwat http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9164-6998
Azhar, Abid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4316-8255
Article History
Received: 25 June 2021
Accepted: 5 January 2022
First Online: 26 January 2022
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: Not applicable.
: All procedures performed in the study involving human participants were under the ethical standards of the Helsinki declaration (1964 and its later amendments). The institutional ethics committee of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), Karachi and the Karachi Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (KIBGE), Pakistan, has approved the study. All the samples have been collected with written informed consent.