1. Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, Umm Al Qura University, Al-Abidiyah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia;
2. Applied and Functional Genomics Laboratory, Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan;
3. Viral Hepatitis Program, Laboratory of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA;
4. Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Fatima Memorial College of Medicine and Dentistry, Shadman, Lahore, Pakistan