Acknowledgments
The authors were grateful to all the participants of this study. We thank Dr. Suravi Patra, Additional Professor, Department of Psychiatry in our institute, AIIMS Bhubaneswar, for her help during sample collection.
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Research funding: None declared.
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Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
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Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.
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Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all participants included in this study.
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Ethical approval: This study was duly granted ethical clearance by the Institute Ethical Committee of AIIMS, Bhubaneswar with the approval number T/IM-NF/Biochem/17/08.
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