Abdul-Qadir, Asal Gailan
Al-Musawi, Bassam Musa http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4404-377X
Thejeal, Rabab Farhan
Al-Omar, Saad Abdul-Baqi
Article History
Received: 28 January 2021
Accepted: 31 March 2021
First Online: 11 May 2021
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Dept. of Pathology, & Forensic Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad (document #1356 in October 23<sup>th</sup>, 2019) as well as from the Ethical Committee of the Ministry of Health, Baghdad, Iraq (document #45961 in November 25th, 2019).All patients’ parents have given their verbal consent to participate in this study as patients’ personal data remain anonymous. The patients' parents agreed to participate when informed that the obtained results of this study would probably detect their child's mutation and the test would be free of charge and improve their chances to have a prenatal diagnosis later on if they got a positive result of mutation detection and would help other patients with this disease by improving molecular diagnosis in Iraq.Both Research Ethics Committees approved these above mentioned steps.All authors revised and approved the final submitted version of the manuscript for publication.We confirm that this work is original and has not been published elsewhere, nor is it currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
: Not applicable.
: All authors declare that there is no conflict of interest to disclose.