About the Authors

Miguel M. Pinheiro

Contributed equally to this work with: Miguel M. Pinheiro, Md Atique Ahmed

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, Medical and Biological Sciences Building, North Haugh, St Andrews, United Kingdom

Md Atique Ahmed

Contributed equally to this work with: Miguel M. Pinheiro, Md Atique Ahmed

Affiliation Malaria Research Centre, University Malaysia Sarawak, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

Scott B. Millar

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, Medical and Biological Sciences Building, North Haugh, St Andrews, United Kingdom

Theo Sanderson

Affiliation Malaria Programme, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Thomas D. Otto

Affiliation Malaria Programme, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Woon Chan Lu

Affiliation Sarikei Hospital, Sarikei, Sarawak, 96100, Malaysia

Sanjeev Krishna

Affiliation Division of Clinical Sciences, St. George’s, University of London, London, United Kingdom

Julian C. Rayner

Affiliation Malaria Programme, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Janet Cox-Singh

jcs26@st-andrews.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, Medical and Biological Sciences Building, North Haugh, St Andrews, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JCS MAA SK JCR. Performed the experiments: MAA TS TDO. Analyzed the data: MMP SBM JCS JCR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MMP TDO. Wrote the paper: JCS JCR. Patient recruitment: WCL.