A genome wide association study identifies a lncRna as risk factor for pathological inflammatory responses in leprosy

• Vinicius M. Fava ,

  * E-mail: erwin.schurr@mcgill.ca (ES); vinicius.medeirosfava@mail.mcgill.ca (VMF)

  Affiliations Program in Infectious Diseases and Immunity in Global Health, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, The McGill International TB Centre, Departments of Human Genetics and Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9142-1713

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• Jeremy Manry ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jeremy Manry, Aurélie Cobat

  Affiliations Program in Infectious Diseases and Immunity in Global Health, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, The McGill International TB Centre, Departments of Human Genetics and Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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• Aurélie Cobat ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jeremy Manry, Aurélie Cobat

  Affiliations Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Branch, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U.1163, Paris, France, University Paris Descartes, Imagine Institute, Paris, France, Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller Branch, Rockefeller University, New York, United States of America

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• Marianna Orlova,

  Affiliations Program in Infectious Diseases and Immunity in Global Health, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, The McGill International TB Centre, Departments of Human Genetics and Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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• Nguyen Van Thuc,

  Affiliation Hospital for Dermato-Venerology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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• Milton O. Moraes,

  Affiliation Laboratório de Hanseníase, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Carolinne Sales-Marques,

  Affiliation Laboratório de Hanseníase, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Mariane M. A. Stefani,

  Affiliation Tropical Pathology and Public Health Institute, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3731-0817

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• Ana Carla P. Latini,

  Affiliation Lauro de Souza Lima Institute, Bauru, Brazil

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• Andrea F. Belone,

  Affiliation Lauro de Souza Lima Institute, Bauru, Brazil

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• Vu Hong Thai,

  Affiliation Hospital for Dermato-Venerology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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• Laurent Abel,

  Affiliations Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Branch, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U.1163, Paris, France, University Paris Descartes, Imagine Institute, Paris, France, Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller Branch, Rockefeller University, New York, United States of America

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• Alexandre Alcaïs,

  Affiliations Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Branch, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U.1163, Paris, France, University Paris Descartes, Imagine Institute, Paris, France, Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller Branch, Rockefeller University, New York, United States of America

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• Erwin Schurr

  * E-mail: erwin.schurr@mcgill.ca (ES); vinicius.medeirosfava@mail.mcgill.ca (VMF)

  Affiliations Program in Infectious Diseases and Immunity in Global Health, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, The McGill International TB Centre, Departments of Human Genetics and Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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