About the Authors

Balaji Balakrishnan

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Dwaipayan Sen

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Sangeetha Hareendran

Affiliation Centre for Stem Cell Research, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Vaani Roshini

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Sachin David

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Alok Srivastava

Affiliations Department of Hematology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India, Centre for Stem Cell Research, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Giridhara R. Jayandharan

jay@cmcvellore.ac.in

Affiliations Department of Hematology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India, Centre for Stem Cell Research, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Competing Interests

GRJ has received a peer-reviewed, competitive early career investigator grant -2010 from Bayer Inc, USA through their hemophilia awards program (http://www.bayer-hemophilia-awards.com/index.html). No other competing financial interests exist. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GRJ. Performed the experiments: BB DS SH VR SD. Analyzed the data: BB DS GRJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS. Wrote the paper: BB GRJ.