Abbigeri, Megha B.
Khan, Muskan
Thokchom, Bothe
Singh, Sapam Riches
Bhavi, Santosh Mallikarjun
Kulkarni, Sudheendra Rao
Harini, B. P.
Reddy, G. Vidya Sagar
Govindasamy, Chandramohan
Almutairi, Khalid M.
Babu, Yarajarla Ramesh
Funding for this research was provided by:
Department of Community Health Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia (RSPD2025R712, RSPD2025R712)
Article History
Received: 5 December 2024
Accepted: 17 June 2025
First Online: 1 July 2025
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: For experiments involving human participants (including the use of tissue samples), informed consent has been obtained. Written consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Institutional ethical approval was granted by Karnataka Institute for DNA Research (KIDNAR), Dharwad (IEC Ref No. KCTRI/EC-01-A/2024). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the Helsinki declaration as revised in 2013 and its later amendments.