About the Authors

Neelanjana Roy

Contributed equally to this work with: Neelanjana Roy, Debanjali Dasgupta

Affiliation Center for Liver Research, School of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Debanjali Dasgupta

Contributed equally to this work with: Neelanjana Roy, Debanjali Dasgupta

Affiliation Center for Liver Research, School of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Indranil Mukhopadhyay

Affiliation Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India

Ankita Chatterjee

Affiliation National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani, India

Kausik Das

Affiliation Department of Hepatology, School of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Pradip Bhowmik

Affiliation Agartala Government Medical College, Agartala, Tripura, India

Soumyajit Das

Affiliation Center for Liver Research, School of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Priyadarshi Basu

Affiliation National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani, India

Amal K. Santra

Affiliation Center for Liver Research, School of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Simanti Datta

Affiliation Center for Liver Research, School of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Gopal Krishna Dhali

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, School of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India

Abhijit Chowdhury

Affiliation Department of Hepatology, School of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Soma Banerjee

somabanerjee70@gmail.com

Affiliation Center for Liver Research, School of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB A. Chowdhury KD NR DD. Performed the experiments: NR DD S. Das A. Chatterjee. Analyzed the data: IM NR DD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: P. Bhowmik P. Basu. Wrote the paper: SB NR DD. Read manuscript carefully: SB NR DD S. Datta A. Chowdhury AKS GKD.