Kour, Akeen
Sambyal, Vasudha http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6648-1906
Guleria, Kamlesh
Singh, Neeti Rajan
Uppal, Manjit Singh
Manjari, Mridu
Sudan, Meena
Funding for this research was provided by:
University Grants Commission (41-824/2012/(SR))
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India (09/254(0258)/2016-EMR-I)
Article History
Received: 27 January 2020
Accepted: 11 June 2020
First Online: 9 November 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was conducted after approval by the institutional ethical committee of Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India. All the subjects gave their written consent to participate in the study and volunteered to provide 5 ml of their blood sample and their personal information. All the study subjects were more than 20 years of age; no children were included in the study. Therefore, parental consent was not obtained.
: Not applicable.
: Corresponding author, Vasudha Sambyal and co-author Kamlesh Guleria are Associate Editors of the journal BMC Medical Genetics. Rest of the authors declare that they have no competing interests.