About the Authors

Anuj Sharma

Contributed equally to this work with: Anuj Sharma, Raghavendar Chandran

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Raghavendar Chandran

Contributed equally to this work with: Anuj Sharma, Raghavendar Chandran

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Biological Sciences Group, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India

Erin S. Barry

Affiliation Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Manish Bhomia

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Mary Anne Hutchison

Affiliation Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Nagaraja S. Balakathiresan

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Neil E. Grunberg

Affiliation Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Radha K. Maheshwari

radha.maheshwari@usuhs.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS RC NEG RKM. Performed the experiments: AS RC ESB MKB MAH. Analyzed the data: AS RC ESB NSB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RKM NEG. Wrote the paper: AS NEG RKM.