Zafar Iqbal, MPhil, PhD1,2,3,4,5, Muhammad Absar, BSc, MSc, PhD6,7*, Abid Jamil, MD PhD8,9*, Tanveer Akhtar, Ph.D10*, Salman Basit, PhD11*, Sibtain Afzal12*, Khushnooda Ramzan13*, Kulsoom Qureshi14*, Muhammad Farooq Sabar, Ph.D15*, Muhammad Arshad16*, Aamer Aleem, MBBS, FRCP, FRCPath17*, Ullah Anhar12,18*, Zeenat Mirza, PhD19*, Sajjad Karim19*, Naila Batool Khalid20*, Mahmood Rasool21*, Muhammad Asif, PhD22*, Mujib Ullah, PhD23*, Ahmad M Khalid, PhD24*, Amer Mahmood, PhD25* and Nawaf Alanazi, MBBS FRCPC26,27*
1Cancer & Medical Genetics, CoAMS-A, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences & King Abdullah International Medical Research Centre (KAIMRC) / SSBMT, King Abdulaziz Medical City, National Guard Health Affairs, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
2Centre for Advanced Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
3Qarshi University, HOPES, Department of Biotechnology & Genomic Medicine, Lahore, Pakistan
4Univ. of The Punjab, Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan
5Pakistan Society for Molecular and Clinical Hematology, Lahore, Pakistan
6Department of Pathology, King Abdulaziz Hospital, King Abdulaziz Medical City, National Guard Health Affairs, Al Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
7Hematology, Oncology and Pharmacogenetics Engineering Sciences (HOPES) Group, Department of Zoology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
8Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar, Pakistan
9HMC Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan
10HOPES Group, Hematology, Oncology and Pharmacogenetic Engineering Sciences (HOPES) Group Pakistan & HOPES Centre, Department of Zoology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
11College of Medicine, Taiba University, Madinah, Saudi Arabia
12College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
13King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
14Medical Oncology Unit, HMC, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, PAK
15Core Genomics Laboratories, Centre for Applied Molecular Biology (CAMB), University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan., Lahore, Pakistan
16Department of Biological Sciences, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan
17Hematology/Oncology Division, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine & King Khalid University Hospital, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
18Hematology, Oncology and Pharmacogenetic Engineering Sciences (HOPES) Group Pakistan & HOPES Centre, Department of Zoology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
19Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences & Centre of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
20IMBB, University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
21Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences & CEGMR, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
22Department of Biotechnology, Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences, (BUITEMS), Quetta, Pakistan
23Interventional Regenerative Medicine and Imaging Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
24Department of Biotechnology & Genomic Medicine, Qarshi University, Lahore, Pakistan
25College of Medicine & King Khalid University Hospital, King Saud University (CoM KSU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
26Division of Pediatric Hematology /Oncology, Department of Medicine, King Abdulaziz Hospital, National Guard Health Affairs, Al Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
27CAMS-A (College of Applied Medical Sciences Al AHSA) King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University of Health Sciences & King Abdulaziz Hospital, National Guard Health Affairs, Al Ahsa, Saudi Arabia