Acknowledgement.
All authors acknowledge all the participants for their contribution in this study and R.K and R.J acknowledge Indian Council of Medical Research (5/10/15/CAR-SMVDU/2018-RBMCH) and Department of Science and Technology (DST/SSTP/ J&K/459), Govt. of India for financial assistance, R.J acknowledges Dr. Varun Sharma for assisting in Data Analysis. A.B acknowledge the financial assistantship from University Grants Commission, UGC-BSR Start-up Grant (grant no. f.30-352/2017) for purchase of probes.
Authors Contributions
R.K, A.B, and R.J planned the work. R.J, N.M, B.S and M.S performed experimental work in lab. G.R, A.B, R.S, S.V and D.B helped in sample collection. R.J performed the statistical analysis, wrote the manuscript and drafted the manuscript according to journal. D.A and R.S provided samples for the study. A.B, R.K and R.S finally refined the manuscript. All authors finally revised and approved the manuscript.
Funding
No Funding.
Availability of data and materials
Data generated and analyzed during study is not available publicly but can be made available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Ethics approval and consent for participation
The study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Review board (IERB) of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University (SMVDU) vide IERB Serial No: SMVDU/IERB/16/41. The informed written consent was taken into account from each participant and all the parameters were recorded in pre-designed Performa. In this study all experimental research work was performed according to guidelines issued by Institutional Ethics Review board committee.
Consent for publication.
Our manuscript does not contain any individual person’s data in any form (including any individual personal details, images or videos).
Corresponding authors
Correspondence to Dr. Audesh Bhat and Dr. Rakesh Kumar
Competing interest
The authors declare no competing interest.
Author details
M.sc Students, School of Biotechnology, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, India. Email: [email protected], [email protected].
Rajeshwar Singh Jamwal, Nikita Mahajan
Research Scholar, School of Biotechnology, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, India. Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected].
Gh. Rasool Bhat, Amrita Bhat, Bhanu Sharma, Minerva Sharma, Divya Bakshi
Department of Biotechnology, Kashmir University, Jammu & Kashmir, India, Email: [email protected]
Ms. Ruchi Shah Scientist ‘B’
Indian Council of Medical Research-Centre for Advance Research, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University -Katra J&K, India, Email: [email protected]
Dr. Sonali Verma, Scientist ‘B’
Associate Professor Department of Radiotherapy, Govt. Medical College Jammu. Email: [email protected].
Dr. Rahul Sharma
Assistant Professor, Radiation oncology Govt. Medical College Kathua. Email: [email protected]
Dr. Deepak Abrol
Assistant Professor, Centre for Molecular Biology, Central University of Jammu, J&K, India.
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Audesh Bhat
Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator, Indian Council of Medical Research-Centre for Advance Research, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University -Katra J&K, India, Email: [email protected]
Dr. Rakesh Kumar