About the Authors

Anil K. Giri

Affiliations Genomics and Molecular Medicine Unit, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology Campus, New Delhi, India

Shallu Midha

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

Priyanka Banerjee

Affiliation Genomics and Molecular Medicine Unit, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India

Ankita Agrawal

Affiliation Genomics and Molecular Medicine Unit, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India

Syed Jafar Mehdi

Affiliation Genomics and Molecular Medicine Unit, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India

Rajan Dhingra

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

Ismeet Kaur

Affiliation Genomics and Molecular Medicine Unit, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India

Ramesh Kumar G.

Affiliation Genomics and Molecular Medicine Unit, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India

Ritika Lakhotia

Affiliation Genomics and Molecular Medicine Unit, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India

Saurabh Ghosh

Affiliation Human Genetics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India

Kshaunish Das

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India

Samir Mohindra

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Post-graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India

Surinder Rana

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Post-graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, India

Deepak K. Bhasin

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Post-graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, India

Pramod K. Garg

db@igib.res.in (DB); pkgarg@aiims.ac.in (PKG)

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

Dwaipayan Bharadwaj

db@igib.res.in (DB); pkgarg@aiims.ac.in (PKG)

Current address: School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Affiliations Genomics and Molecular Medicine Unit, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology Campus, New Delhi, India

INDIPAN and INDICO Consortium

Membership of the INDIPAN and INDICO Consortium is listed in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PKG DB. Performed the experiments: SJM RL RKG. Analyzed the data: AKG IK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: S. Midha RD KD S. Mohindra SR DKB. Wrote the paper: AKG AA PB SJM IK RL RKG SG PKG DB.