AlShaban, Fouad https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0529-9721
Fombonne, Éric
Ghazal, Iman
Al-Faraj, Fatema
Aqel, Sarah
Thompson, I. Richard
Al-Shammari, Hawraa
El-Hag, Saba
Nasir, Bisher
Funding for this research was provided by:
Qatar Foundation
Article History
Received: 7 August 2025
Accepted: 6 December 2025
First Online: 5 January 2026
Declarations
:
: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
: The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Institutional Review Board of Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI).
: Informed consent was obtained from all subjects involved in the study.
: Conceptualization (FA, EF); Methodology (FA, EF, RT); Data acquisition (IG, FF, RT, SE, HA); Investigation (IG, FF, SA, RT, SE, HA, BN); Formal analysis (SA); Data curation (SA, RT); Manuscript writing—original draft (SA, FA); Manuscript writing—review and editing (all authors); References (SA, IG, FF); Supervision (FA, IG); Funding acquisition (FA).