About the Authors

Dilek Colak

dcolakkaya@kfshrc.edu.sa (DC); sbinamer2@gmail.com (SMA)

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Scientific Computing, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Asmaa Nofal

Affiliation Department of Molecular Oncology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

AlBandary AlBakheet

Affiliation Department of Genetics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Maimoona Nirmal

Affiliation Department of Molecular Oncology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Hatim Jeprel

Affiliation Department of Molecular Oncology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Abdelmoneim Eldali

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Scientific Computing, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Taher AL-Tweigeri

Affiliation Department of Oncology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Asma Tulbah

Affiliation Deparment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Dahish Ajarim

Affiliation Department of Oncology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Osama Al Malik

Affiliation Department of Surgery, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Mehmet S. Inan

† Deceased.

Affiliation Department of Genetics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Namik Kaya

Affiliation Department of Genetics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Ben H. Park

Affiliation The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Breast Cancer Research Program, Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Suad M. Bin Amer

dcolakkaya@kfshrc.edu.sa (DC); sbinamer2@gmail.com (SMA)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Oncology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

DC is a PLOS ONE Board Member. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SMA DC. Performed the experiments: AN NK AA MN HJ MSI AT. Analyzed the data: DC AE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SMA TT DA AE OM NK. Wrote the paper: DC SMA BHP NK.