About the Authors

Ramesh C. Juyal

Affiliation Experimental Animal Facility, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India

Sapna Negi

Affiliation Experimental Animal Facility, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India

Preeti Wakhode

Affiliation Department of Ayurveda, Holy Family Hospital, New Delhi, India

Sulekha Bhat

Affiliation Department of Ayurveda, Holy Family Hospital, New Delhi, India

Bheema Bhat

Affiliation Department of Ayurveda, Holy Family Hospital, New Delhi, India

B. K. Thelma

thelmabk@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Conceived the study, and obtained funding for the study: BKT RCJ BB. Designed the experiments for the study: BKT RCJ. Contributed in genotyping: SN. Performed statistical analyses of the data: SN PW. Recruited subjects for this study: BB SB PW. Conducted prakriti assessment of cases and control subjects: BB PW. Contributed to writing the manuscript: BKT RCJ BB SN. Reviewed the final manuscript: RCJ SN PW SB BB BKT.