A polymorphism in the haptoglobin, haptoglobin related protein locus is associated with risk of human sleeping sickness within Cameroonian populations

• Elvis Ofon,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Molecular Parasitology & Entomology Unit, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon

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• Harry Noyes,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Genomic Research, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Julius Mulindwa,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, CONAS, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Hamidou Ilboudo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Unité de recherche sur les bases biologiques de la lutte intégrée, Centre International de Recherche-Développement sur l’Elevage en zone Subhumide (CIRDES), Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

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• Martin Simuunza,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Disease Control, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Vincent Ebo’o,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation National Sleeping sickness control Program of Cameroon, Ministry of Public Health, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Flobert Njiokou,

  Roles Supervision, Visualization

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Department of Animal Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Yaoundé 1, Yaounde, Cameroon

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• Mathurin Koffi,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratoire des interactions Hôte-Microorganismes-Environnement et Evolution, Unité de Formation et de Recherche Environnement, Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé, Daloa, Côte d’Ivoire

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• Bruno Bucheton,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), UMR INTERTRYP IRD-CIRAD, Campus international de Baillarguet, Montpellier, France, Programme National de Lutte contre la Trypanosomose Humaine Africaine, Conakry, Guinea

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• Pythagore Fogue,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Molecular Parasitology & Entomology Unit, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon

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• Christiane Hertz-Fowler,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Genomic Research, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Annette MacLeod,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Garscube Estate, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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• Gustave Simo ,

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

  * E-mail: gsimoca@yahoo.fr, gustave.simo@univ-dschang.org

  Affiliation Molecular Parasitology & Entomology Unit, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0449-818X

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• for the TrypanoGEN Research Group, as members of The H3Africa Consortium

  ¶Membership of the TrypanoGEN Research Group, as members of the H3Africa Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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