Amit Kumar: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole:
Writing – original draft
Shubham Misra:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4920-2573
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: ResourcesRole: Writing – original
draft
Vivek Verma:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2537-4431
Role: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: SoftwareRole: Writing – review & editing
Ramesh K. Vishwakarma: Role: Formal analysisRole: SoftwareRole: ValidationRole: Visualization
Vineet Kumar Kamal: Role: InvestigationRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Manabesh Nath:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5979-8377
Role: Data curationRole: ResourcesRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Kiran Prakash: Role: InvestigationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Ashish Datt Upadhyay: Role: InvestigationRole: Validation
Jitendra Kumar Sahu:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5194-9951
Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole:
Writing – original draft
Giovanni Lo Iacono: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS One
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
22
October
2020
Publication date Collection: 2020
Publication date PMC-release: 22
October
2020
Volume: 15
Issue: 10
Electronic Location Identifier: e0240710
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Neurology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
[2
]
Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, King Abdullah International Medical
Research Center/King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia
[3
]
Division of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, National Institute of Epidemiology, Indian
Council of Medical Research, Chennai, India
[4
]
Department of Physiology, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India
[5
]
Department of Biostatistics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
[6
]
Pediatric Neurology Unit, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research,
Chandigarh, India
University of Surrey, School of Veterinary Medicine, UNITED KINGDOM
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
‡ All authors have contributed equally to this work and share the first authorship.
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0240710
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