About the Authors

Praveenkumar K. Shetty

Contributed equally to this work with: Praveenkumar K. Shetty, Sanjay I. Thamake

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, SDM College of Medical Sciences & Hospital, Dharwad, India

Sanjay I. Thamake

Contributed equally to this work with: Praveenkumar K. Shetty, Sanjay I. Thamake

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

Swati Biswas

Affiliation Department of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Sonny L. Johansson

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Jamboor K. Vishwanatha

jamboor.vishwanatha@unthsc.edu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, SDM College of Medical Sciences & Hospital, Dharwad, India, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JKV. Wrote the paper: PKS SIT JKV. Conceived the idea: PKS. Designed and performed the experiments: PKS SIT. Analyzed the data (pathology): PKS SIT SLJ. Analyzed the data (Statistical analysis): SB. Contributed to conception of the idea and supervised the overall study: JKV.