Preeti Tripathi¹, Haraprasad Pati², Renu Saxena², Manoranjan Mahapatra², Seema Tyagi², Ankur Ahuja² (1.Command Hospital Airforce Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, Republic of India, 2.All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi, Republic of India)

Adisak Tantiworawit, Wasuwit Wanchaitanawong, Thanawat Rattanathammethee, Chatree Chai-Adisaksopha, Ekarat Rattarittamrong, Lalita Norasetthada, Pimlak Charoenkwan (Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Maung ChiangMai, ChiangMai, Kingdom of Thailand)

Humaira Yasmeen¹, Shahida Hasnain² (1.Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Women University Multan, Multan, Punjab, Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 2.Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of the Punjab Lahore, Lahore, Punjab, Islamic Republic of Pakistan)

Munira Borhany¹, Laila Elsharif², Hafiza Tuba Iqbal¹, Madiha Abid¹, Tahir Shamsi¹, Kenneth I Ataga³ (1.National Institute of Blood Disease and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Karachi, Pakistan, Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 2.Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, 3.Center for Sickle Cell Disease, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America)

Mohamed-Rachid Boulassel^1,2, Khoula Al-Rubkhi¹, Anil Pathare² (1.Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, 2.Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman)

Li Qin^1,2, Yanbo Nie², Long Chen², Jing Li² (1.Institute of Hematology and Blood Disease Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 2.Sino-US Diagnositics, Tianjin, People's Republic of China)