About the Authors

Soundara Viveka Thangaraj

Affiliation Department of Preventive Oncology (Research), Cancer Institute (W.I.A.), Chennai, India

Vidyarani Shyamsundar

Affiliation Centre for Oral Cancer Prevention Awareness and Research, Sree Balaji Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, India

Arvind Krishnamurthy

Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, Cancer Institute (W.I.A.), Chennai, India

Pratibha Ramani

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Saveetha Dental College, Saveetha University, Kumanchavadi, Chennai, India

Kumaresan Ganesan

Affiliation Department of Genetics, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India

Muthulakshmi Muthuswami

Affiliation Department of Genetics, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India

Vijayalakshmi Ramshankar

vijiciwia@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Preventive Oncology (Research), Cancer Institute (W.I.A.), Chennai, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VR. Performed the experiments: SVT. Analyzed the data: VR VS AK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VS PR AK KG MM. Wrote the paper: VR SVT AK.