Ng, Wei Leik https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3074-9114
Kee, Boon Pin
Hussein, Norita
Ng, Chirk Jenn
Kuan, Sheh Wen
Mohd Zaidan, Fatimah Zahrah
Azmi, Siti Umi Fairuz
Then, Sue-Mian
Kwan, Zhenli
Qureshi, Nadeem
Lim, Jing Ran
Wong, Li Ying
Lee, Yew Kong
Abdul Malik, Tun Firzara
Gunasekaran, Rajeswari
Low, Dyoi-E
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Malaya Specialist Centre (UMSC) CA.R.E Fund Research Grant 2020 (PV016-2020, PV016-2020, PV016-2020, PV016-2020, PV016-2020, PV016-2020, PV016-2020, PV016-2020)
Article History
Received: 23 July 2024
Accepted: 5 November 2024
First Online: 25 November 2024
Declarations
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: One of our authors, Professor Nadeem Qureshi serves on the advisory board for Journal of Community Genetics. The rest of the authors have no competing interest.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.This study was approved by the UMMC Ethics Committee (MREC ID NO: 2020224–8313) and the Medical Research and Ethics Committee, Ministry of Health Malaysia (NMRR-20–1612-53782).