About the Authors

Singh Pooja

Contributed equally to this work with: Singh Pooja, Amirtharaj Francis

Affiliations Endocrinology Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India, Department of Pathology, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India

Amirtharaj Francis

Contributed equally to this work with: Singh Pooja, Amirtharaj Francis

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Singh Rajender

Affiliation Endocrinology Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India

Rakesh Tamang

Affiliations CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India, Department of Genetics, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

Raja Rajkumar

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Karan Singh Saini

Affiliation Endocrinology Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India

Kaling Megu

Affiliation Department of Surgery, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India

Madhu Mati Goel

Affiliation Department of Pathology, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India

Daminani Surekha

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

Digumarthi Raghunatha Rao

Affiliation Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, India

Lakshmi Rao

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal, India

Lingadakai Ramachandra

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal, India

Sandeep Kumar

Affiliations Department of Surgery, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, India

Surender Kumar

Affiliation Department of Surgery, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India

Satti Vishnupriya

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

Kapaettu Satyamoorthy

Affiliation Manipal Life Sciences Center, Manipal University, Manipal, India

Mahendra Pal Singh Negi

Affiliation Biometric and Statistics Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India

Kumarasamy Thangaraj

r_konwar@cdri.res.in (RK); thangs@ccmb.res.in (KT)

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Rituraj Konwar

r_konwar@cdri.res.in (RK); thangs@ccmb.res.in (KT)

Affiliation Endocrinology Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SP SR Sandeep Kumar KT RK. Performed the experiments: KM DS DRR Lakshmi Rao Lingadakai Ramachandra Surender Kumar Sandeep Kumar MMG SV Kapaettu Satyamoorthy SP AF SR RT RR Karan Singh Saini KT RK. Analyzed the data: SP AF SR RT RR Karan Singh Saini KM MPSN KT RK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SP AF SR RT RR Karan Singh Saini KM DS DRR Lakshmi Rao Lingadakai Ramachandra Surender Kumar Sandeep Kumar SV Kapaettu Satyamoorthy MPSN KT RK. Wrote the paper: SP SR Sandeep Kumar Kapaettu Satyamoorthy KT RK.