About the Authors

Sarah Auburn

Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah Auburn, Susana Campino

sa3@sanger.ac.uk

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom, Global Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia

Susana Campino

Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah Auburn, Susana Campino

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Taane G. Clark

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Abdoulaye A. Djimde

Affiliation Malaria Research and Training Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali

Issaka Zongo

Affiliation Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Direction Régionale de l'Ouést, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Robert Pinches

Affiliation The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Magnus Manske

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Valentina Mangano

Affiliation Section of Parasitology, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

Daniel Alcock

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Elisa Anastasi

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Gareth Maslen

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Bronwyn MacInnis

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Kirk Rockett

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

David Modiano

Affiliation Section of Parasitology, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

Christopher I. Newbold

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom, The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Ogobara K. Doumbo

Affiliation Malaria Research and Training Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali

Jean Bosco Ouédraogo

Affiliation Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Direction Régionale de l'Ouést, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Dominic P. Kwiatkowski

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SA SC KR CIN DPK. Performed the experiments: SA SC RP VM DA EA BM. Analyzed the data: TGC MM GM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AAD IZ DM CIN OKD JBO. Wrote the paper: SA SC.