About the Authors

Ramandeep Kaur Virk

drramandeepvirk@yahoo.com.sg

Affiliation Department of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Vithiagaran Gunalan

Affiliation Bioinformatics Institute, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore

Hong Kai Lee

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore

Masafumi Inoue

Affiliation Experimental Therapeutics Unit, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore

Catherine Chua

Affiliation University Health Centre, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Boon-Huan Tan

Affiliation Detection & Diagnostics Laboratory, DSO National Laboratories, Singapore

Paul Anantharajah Tambyah

Affiliation Department of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

Dr. Paul Tambyah has received research support from Baxter, GSK, ADAMAS, Merlion Pharmaceuticals, Sanofi Pasteur, Fabentech and Inviragen. He has also received honoraria from Novartis and Astra-Zeneca. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RKV PAT BHT VG. Data curation: RKV PAT BHT VG HKL MI CC. Formal analysis: RKV PAT BHT VG HKL. Funding acquisition: RKV PAT BHT MI. Investigation: RKV PAT BHT VG HKL. Methodology: RKV PAT BHT VG HKL MI. Project administration: RKV PAT BHT. Resources: RKV PAT BHT VG HKL MI CC. Software: RKV VG HKL. Supervision: RKV PAT BHT VG. Validation: RKV PAT BHT VG HKL MI CC. Visualization: RKV PAT BHT VG HKL MI CC. Writing – original draft: RKV. Writing – review & editing: RKV PAT BHT VG HKL MI CC.