About the Authors

Ulaganathan Mabalirajan

um.rajan@igib.res.in

Affiliation Molecular Immunogenetics Laboratory, and Centre of Excellence for Translational Research in Asthma & Lung Disease, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Mall Road, Delhi, India

Tanveer Ahmad

Affiliation Molecular Immunogenetics Laboratory, and Centre of Excellence for Translational Research in Asthma & Lung Disease, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Mall Road, Delhi, India

Rakhshinda Rehman

Affiliation Molecular Immunogenetics Laboratory, and Centre of Excellence for Translational Research in Asthma & Lung Disease, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Mall Road, Delhi, India

Geeta Devi Leishangthem

Affiliation Department of Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India

Amit Kumar Dinda

Affiliation Department of Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India

Anurag Agrawal

Affiliation Molecular Immunogenetics Laboratory, and Centre of Excellence for Translational Research in Asthma & Lung Disease, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Mall Road, Delhi, India

Balaram Ghosh

Affiliation Molecular Immunogenetics Laboratory, and Centre of Excellence for Translational Research in Asthma & Lung Disease, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Mall Road, Delhi, India

Surendra Kumar Sharma

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UM AKD AA BG SKS. Performed the experiments: UM TA RR GDL. Analyzed the data: UM AKD AA BG SKS. Wrote the paper: UM AKD AA BG SKS.