Polymorphisms and haplotypes in the promoter of the TNF-α gene are associated with disease severity of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome in Chinese Han population

• Bo Xing ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bo Xing, Xiao-Kun Li

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, P. R, China

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• Xiao-Kun Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bo Xing, Xiao-Kun Li

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, P. R, China

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• Shao-Fei Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, P. R, China

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• Qing-Bin Lu,

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

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, P. R, China

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• Juan Du,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, P. R, China

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• Pan-He Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, P. R, China

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• Zhen-Dong Yang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation The 154 Hospital, People’s Liberation Army, Xinyang, P. R, China

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• Ning Cui,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation The 154 Hospital, People’s Liberation Army, Xinyang, P. R, China

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• Chen-Tao Guo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, P. R, China

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• Wu-Chun Cao,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, P. R, China

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• Xiao-Ai Zhang ,

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

  * E-mail: babylovehopi@163.com (XAZ); liuwei@bmi.ac.cn (WL)

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, P. R, China

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• Wei Liu

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

  * E-mail: babylovehopi@163.com (XAZ); liuwei@bmi.ac.cn (WL)

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, P. R, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9302-8170

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