Sadeghi, Seyed Amirhossein
Li, Kun
Yue, Yifan
Tabatabaeian Nimavard, Reyhane
Grumelot, Shaun
Saei, Amir Ata https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2639-6328
Vali, Hojatollah
Fang, Fei https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0829-9871
Liu, Xiaowen https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4139-1127
Mahmoudi, Morteza https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2575-9684
Sun, Liangliang https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8939-5042
Funding for this research was provided by:
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (DK131417)
Article History
Received: 11 September 2025
Accepted: 2 June 2026
First Online: 11 June 2026
Competing interests
: M.M. discloses that (1) he is a co-founder and director of the Academic Parity Movement ( ), a non-profit organization dedicated to addressing academic discrimination, violence and incivility; (2) he is a co-founder of and shareholder in Targets’ Tip, AlbuDerm, and XProteome Inc.; and (3) he receives royalties/honoraria for his published books, plenary lectures and licensed patents. A.A.S. is a co-founder of XProteome Inc. X.L. has a project contract with Bioinformatics Solutions Inc., a company that develops software for MS data processing. The remaining authors declare no competing interests.