About the Authors

Deepthi Kattula

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Srinivasan Venugopal

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Vasanthakumar Velusamy

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Rajiv Sarkar

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Victoria Jiang

Affiliation Department of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Mahasampath Gowri S.

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Ankita Henry

Affiliation Department of Biology, Denison University, Granville, Ohio, United States of America

Jordanna Devi Deosaran

Affiliation Division of Medical and Dental Education, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

Jayaprakash Muliyil

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Gagandeep Kang

gkang@cmcvellore.ac.in

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: GK JM DK RS. Data curation: DK SV VV RS. Formal analysis: DK MGS SV VV AH JDD VJ. Funding acquisition: GK. Investigation: DK SV VV VJ. Methodology: GK DK RS. Project administration: DK RS VV. Resources: GK. Software: DK SV MGS VV. Supervision: GK. Validation: GK. Visualization: DK RS. Writing - original draft: DK GK. Writing - review & editing: GK RS JM AH JDD.