About the Authors

Indu Waidyatilaka

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Pulani Lanerolle

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Rajitha Wickremasinghe

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Sunethra Atukorala

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Noel Somasundaram

Affiliation Endocrine Unit, National Hospital of Colombo, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Angela de Silva

desilva.angela@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Reviewed and edited: IW PL AdS SA RW NS. Conceived and designed the experiments: IW PL AdS SA. Performed the experiments: IW PL AdS SA. Analyzed the data: IW PL AdS SA RW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IW PL AdS SA RW NS. Wrote the paper: IW PL AdS SA RW.