Correction: Molecular Biology Reports

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-023-08745-2

In this article Farkhondeh Pouresmaeili and Saeideh Alidoost should have been denoted as an equally contributing authors.

The affiliation ‘Medical Genetics Department, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran’ for author Farkhondeh Pouresmaeili was missing.

The original article has been corrected.