About the Authors

Supriti Ghosh

Contributed equally to this work with: Supriti Ghosh, Sanjay M. Pattanshetty

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Manipal School of Life Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

Sanjay M. Pattanshetty

Contributed equally to this work with: Supriti Ghosh, Sanjay M. Pattanshetty

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Policy, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

Sneha D. Mallya

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

Deeksha Pandey

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

Vasudeva Guddattu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Data Science, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

Veena G. Kamath

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

Shama Prasada Kabekkodu

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Manipal School of Life Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

Kapaettu Satyamoorthy

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Manipal School of Life Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

Ranjitha S. Shetty

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ranjitha.shetty@manipal.edu

Affiliations Department of Community Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India, Centre for Indigenous Population, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.