About the Authors

Pratip Chakraborty

Contributed equally to this work with: Pratip Chakraborty, S. K. Goswami

Affiliation Department of Infertility, Institute of Reproductive Medicine, Kolkata, India

S. K. Goswami

Contributed equally to this work with: Pratip Chakraborty, S. K. Goswami

Affiliation Department of Assisted Reproduction, Institute of Reproductive Medicine, Kolkata, India

Shweta Rajani

Affiliation Department of Assisted Reproduction, Institute of Reproductive Medicine, Kolkata, India

Sunita Sharma

Affiliation Department of Assisted Reproduction, Institute of Reproductive Medicine, Kolkata, India

Syed N. Kabir

Affiliation Reproductive Biology Research, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Jadavpur, Kolkata, India

Baidyanath Chakravarty

Affiliation Department of Assisted Reproduction, Institute of Reproductive Medicine, Kolkata, India

Kuladip Jana

kuladip@bic.boseinst.ernet.in

Affiliation Division of Molecular Medicine, Bose Institute, P 1/12, Calcutta Improvement Trust Scheme VIIM, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PC SKG BNC KJ. Performed the experiments: SKG SS SR. Analyzed the data: PC SS SR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BNC SS SR SNK KJ. Wrote the paper: BNC SNK PC KJ. Collection of data and setting them in order: SS SR.