About the Authors

Khalid Hussain Bhat

Contributed equally to this work with: Khalid Hussain Bhat, Asma Ahmed

Affiliation Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Nampally, Hyderabad, India

Asma Ahmed

Contributed equally to this work with: Khalid Hussain Bhat, Asma Ahmed

Affiliation Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Nampally, Hyderabad, India

Santosh Kumar

Affiliation International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology, ICGEB Campus, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg. New Delhi, India

Pawan Sharma

Affiliations International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology, ICGEB Campus, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg. New Delhi, India, North Eastern Region-Biotechnology Programme Management Cell (NER-BPMC), A-254, Defence Colony, Bhisham Pitamah Marg, New Delhi, India

Sangita Mukhopadhyay

sangita@cdfd.org.in; sangitacdfd@gmail.com

Affiliation Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Nampally, Hyderabad, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PS SM. Performed the experiments: KHB AA SK. Analyzed the data: AA KHB PS SM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SK PS SM. Wrote the paper: AA KHB SM.