About the Authors

Nishi Gupta

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Central Drug Research Institute (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Saraswati Gupta

Affiliation IVF Department, Ajanta Hospitals and IVF Centre Pvt. Ltd., Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Madhukar Dama

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Central Drug Research Institute (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Archana David

Affiliation IVF Department, Ajanta Hospitals and IVF Centre Pvt. Ltd., Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Geeta Khanna

Affiliation IVF Department, Ajanta Hospitals and IVF Centre Pvt. Ltd., Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Anil Khanna

Affiliation IVF Department, Ajanta Hospitals and IVF Centre Pvt. Ltd., Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Singh Rajender

rajender_singh@cdri.res.in

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Central Drug Research Institute (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Competing Interests

SG, AD, GK and AK are employed by Ajanta Hospitals and IVF Centre Pvt. Ltd. The authors' employment does not alter their adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NG GK SR. Performed the experiments: NG SG MD SR. Analyzed the data: NG SR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG AD GK AK SR. Wrote the paper: NG SR.