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Authors
Farooq, Muhammad
Bruun, Gitte Hoffmann
Sarusie, Menachem V. K.
Kessel, Line
Akhtar, Hamna
Abdullah, Uzma
Ali, Zafar
Shah, Sajjad Ali
Ali, Nijat
Anjum, Iram
Doktor, Thomas K.
Andresen, Brage Storstein https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7488-3035
Baig, Shahid Mahmood
Larsen, Lars Allan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7536-1172
Grønskov, Karen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2341-1326
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Novo Nordisk Fonden (NNF19OC0058588)
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Article History
Received: 18 March 2025
Revised: 18 December 2025
Accepted: 17 February 2026
First Online: 11 March 2026
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study followed the declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Institutional Review Board of GC University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan and Institutional Research Board (IRB), Health Services Academy (HSA), Islamabad, Pakistan (reference numbers GCUF/ERC/1826 and 7-82/IERC-HSA/2022-94). Informed consent was obtained from all participating individuals or their parents for the collection of blood samples, genetic analyses, and publication of genetic information.
