About the Authors

Surya Prakash Bhatt

Affiliations Diabetic Foundation (India) and National Diabetes Obesity and Cholesterol Foundation (N-DOC), New Delhi, India, Department of Pulmonary Medicine and Sleep Disorders, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, India

Anoop Misra

anoopmisra@gmail.com

Affiliations Diabetic Foundation (India) and National Diabetes Obesity and Cholesterol Foundation (N-DOC), New Delhi, India, Fortis C-DOC Center of Excellence for Diabetes, Metabolic Diseases, and Endocrinology, B 16, Chirag Enclave, New Delhi, India

Priyanka Nigam

Affiliation Diabetic Foundation (India) and National Diabetes Obesity and Cholesterol Foundation (N-DOC), New Delhi, India

Randeep Guleria

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine and Sleep Disorders, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

M. A. Qadar Pasha

Affiliation Council of Scientific & Industrial Research-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM. Performed the experiments: SPB PN. Analyzed the data: SPB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SPB AM RG MAQP. Wrote the paper: SPB AM.