Tuberculosis severity associates with variants and eQTLs related to vascular biology and infection-induced inflammation

• Michael L. McHenry,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3060-7749

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• Jason Simmons,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation TB Research & Training Center, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Hyejeong Hong,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3141-7506

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• LaShaunda L. Malone,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Tuberculosis Research Unit, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Harriet Mayanja-Kizza,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine and Mulago Hospital, School of Medicine, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9297-6208

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• William S. Bush,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• W. Henry Boom,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Tuberculosis Research Unit, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Thomas R. Hawn,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation TB Research & Training Center, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Scott M. Williams ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Smw154@cse.edu, cmj7@case.edu

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally as senior authors of this work

  Affiliations Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Cleveland institute for Computational Biology, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4835-9544

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• Catherine M. Stein

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally as senior authors of this work

  Affiliations Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Tuberculosis Research Unit, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9763-5023

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