Singh, Swati
Danda, Sumita https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8973-370X
Sharma, Neetu
Shah, Hitesh
Madhuri, Vrisha
Mir, Tariq Altaf https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3533-7926
Padala, Nadia Zipporah
Medishetti, Raghavender
Ekbote, Alka
Bhavani, Gandham SriLakshmi
Sevilimedu, Aarti
Girisha, Katta M. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0139-8239
Funding for this research was provided by:
DBT India Alliance (Grant Reference number: IA/CRC/20/1/600002))
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (08/028(0002)/2019-EMR-I)
Article History
Received: 7 April 2024
Revised: 6 October 2024
Accepted: 21 October 2024
First Online: 6 November 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests. KMG holds shares and is a director of Suma Genomics Private Limited that has interests in clinical diagnostics.
: Informed consents were obtained from the participants for the study and publication of clinical photographs. The research protocol is approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee, Kasturba Medical College and Hospital, Manipal (IEC: 363/2020) and Institutional Review Board Ethics and Research Committee members of the Christian Medical College, Vellore (Ref: IRB Min. No. 0424162). All experiments with zebrafish were done in a CCSEA-approved zebrafish facility at Dr. Reddy’s Institute of Life Sciences (1100/po/Re/s/07/CPCSEA) in Hyderabad, India. The facility also has US-NIH OLAW assurance (F22-00539). All procedures and protocols were reviewed and approved by the Institutional Animal Ethics Committee (Protocol approval DRILS/IAEC/AS/2021-1). The “Guidelines for Experimentation on Fishes, 2021” published by CPCSEA was used as a reference.