About the Authors

Muthulakshmi Muthuswami

Contributed equally to this work with: Muthulakshmi Muthuswami, Vignesh Ramesh, Saikat Banerjee

Affiliation Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Department of Genetics, Centre for Excellence in Genomic Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India

Vignesh Ramesh

Contributed equally to this work with: Muthulakshmi Muthuswami, Vignesh Ramesh, Saikat Banerjee

Affiliation Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Department of Genetics, Centre for Excellence in Genomic Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India

Saikat Banerjee

Contributed equally to this work with: Muthulakshmi Muthuswami, Vignesh Ramesh, Saikat Banerjee

Affiliation Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Department of Genetics, Centre for Excellence in Genomic Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India

Soundara Viveka Thangaraj

Affiliation Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Department of Genetics, Centre for Excellence in Genomic Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India

Jayaprakash Periasamy

Affiliation Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Department of Genetics, Centre for Excellence in Genomic Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India

Divya Bhaskar Rao

Affiliation Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Department of Genetics, Centre for Excellence in Genomic Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India

Georgina D. Barnabas

Affiliation Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Department of Genetics, Centre for Excellence in Genomic Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India

Swetha Raghavan

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chenna, India

Kumaresan Ganesan

kumar@oncocellomics.org

Affiliation Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Department of Genetics, Centre for Excellence in Genomic Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KG MM SB VR. Performed the experiments: VR SVT JP DBR GDB SR. Analyzed the data: MM VR SB KG. Wrote the manuscript: KG MM SB VR. Performed data mining and statistical analysis: MM VR SB KG Approved the final manuscript: KG MM VR SB SVT JP DBR GDB SR.