Amar Gautam, Stuti Gupta, Mohit Mehndiratta, Mohini Sharma, Kalpana Singh, Om P Kalra, Sunil Agarwal, Jasvinder K Gambhir
Amar Gautam, Om P Kalra, Sunil Agarwal, Department of Medicine, University College of Medical Sciences (University of Delhi) and G.T.B. Hospital, Delhi 110095, India
Stuti Gupta, Mohit Mehndiratta, Mohini Sharma, Kalpana Singh, Jasvinder K Gambhir, Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry, University College of Medical Sciences (University of Delhi) and G.T.B. Hospital, Delhi 110095, India
Author contributions: Gautam A and Gupta S contributed equally to this article; Gautam A, Gupta S, Sharma M and Singh K performed sample collection, majority of experiments, analyzed data and wrote manuscript; Mehndiratta M, Kalra OP, Agarwal S and Gambhir JK contributed to conceptual and study design, data analysis and interpretation, as well as manuscript writing.
Institutional review board statement: The protocol of the present study was reviewed and approved by Institutional Ethics Committee for Human Research, Delhi University, and UCMS and GTB Hospital, Delhi.
Informed consent statement: Informed consent was obtained from the all recruited subjects. They were briefed on the purpose of the study and its implication prior to donating peripheral blood.
Conflict-of-interest statement: No conflict of interest exists for this study.
Data sharing statement: No data sharing as this manuscript and the data were not published elsewhere.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Jasvinder K Gambhir, PhD, Professor, Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry, University College of Medical Sciences (University of Delhi) and G.T.B. Hospital, Dilshad Garden, Delhi 110095, India.
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Received: September 12, 2016
Peer-review started: September 19, 2016
First decision: October 21, 2016
Revised: December 6, 2016
Accepted: December 27, 2016
Article in press: December 28, 2016
Published online: February 15, 2017
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