Khate, Kevingu
Chaudhary, Vineet
Bhattacharjee, Debashis
Kaushik, Anshika
Walia, Gagandeep Kaur
Babu, Nandita
Saraswathy, Kallur Nava
Devi, Naorem Kiranmala
Funding for this research was provided by:
Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India (DST/CSRI/2018/162(G))
Indian Council of Medical Research (45/01/2022-ANTHRO/BMS)
Article History
Received: 29 September 2023
Accepted: 23 February 2024
First Online: 23 March 2024
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The present study was conducted following the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki for biomedical studies involving human subjects. Moreover, the present study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee, Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi (Ref No. Anth/2018/2890/1/28-12-2018). Prior to recruitment and data collection, pre-informed voluntary written consent, transcribed in local language was obtained from each participant.
: All the authors have provided consent for the publication of this manuscript.