Population-level toggling of T cell immune escape at human leukocyte antigen anchor residues in SARS-CoV-2 Spike proteins, in an ethnically diverse population region

• Nobubelo K. Ngandu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Nobubelo.Ngandu@mrc.ac.za

  Affiliations HIV and other Infectious Diseases Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa, South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI), University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8883-3821

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• Burtram C. Fielding,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Molecular Biology and Virology Research Laboratory, Department of Medical Biosciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1873-3363

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• Peter van Heusden,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI), University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Kuhle Mcinga,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation HIV and other Infectious Diseases Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Kriheska Francis,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation HIV and other Infectious Diseases Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Gordon Harkins

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI), University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

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