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Accepted: 29 May 2025

First Online: 19 June 2025

Declarations

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: This work was supported by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, Prisma program, Grant Number 6999 and Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia [Number: 451-03-136/2025-03/200042].

: The authors MDjM, AS, BK, SS, IK, SP, MS declare no competing interests.

: This study has been approved by the Ethics Approval Committee of the Mother and Child Health Care Institute of Serbia “Dr Vukan Cupic” in Belgrade, Serbia (8/2025 and 31/2020).

: The study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

: Raw genetic data are generated and stored at Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, University of Belgrade, and are available on reasonable request.

: MDj conceived the study, collected all data, performed analysis, wrote the paper; AS performed the genetic analysis and wrote the paper; SS prepared all figures; BK and IK collected the patients’ phenotype data; SP reviewed the paper; MS wrote the paper.