Giri, Anil K.
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Prasad, Gauri
Bandesh, Khushdeep
Parekatt, Vaisak
Mahajan, Anubha
Banerjee, Priyanka
Kauser, Yasmeen
Chakraborty, Shraddha
Rajashekar, Donaka
Sharma, Abhay
Mathur, Sandeep Kumar
Basu, Analabha
McCarthy, Mark I.
Tandon, Nikhil
Bharadwaj, Dwaipayan http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5268-8482
Funding for this research was provided by:
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (Centre for Cardiovascular, Metabolic Disease Research [CARDIOMED] project [Grant No: BSC0122-(12)])
Department of Biotechnology (BIOCHILD)
Department of Science & Technology (PURSE II CDST/SR/PURSE PHASE II/11)
Article History
Received: 19 October 2019
Accepted: 11 April 2020
First Online: 4 May 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there is no conflict of interest.
: The study was approved by Human Ethics Committees of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi and CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India and was conducted in accordance with the principles of Helsinki Declarations.
: The adult participants were informed about objectives of study and written consents were taken from all of them. For adolescent study population, prior official permission from school authorities, informed written consent from parents and verbal consent from participants themselves were obtained before their participation in the study.