About the Authors

Hema Bora

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Rupesh Kumar Tyagi

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Yagya Dutta Sharma

ydsharma@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Obtained ethical clearance for use of human blood: YDS. Obtained project grant: YDS. Conceived and designed the experiments: YDS. Performed the experiments: HB RKT. Analyzed the data: HB RKT YDS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HB. Wrote the paper: HB YDS.