Protection or susceptibility to devastating childhood epilepsy: Nodding Syndrome associates with immunogenetic fingerprints in the HLA binding groove

• Gil Benedek ,

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

  * E-mail: gilb@hadassah.org.il

  Affiliation Tissue Typing and Immunogenetics Laboratory, Department of Genetics, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3761-9467

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• Mahmoud Abed El Latif,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software

  Affiliation Tissue Typing and Immunogenetics Laboratory, Department of Genetics, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Keren Miller,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software

  Affiliation Tissue Typing and Immunogenetics Laboratory, Department of Genetics, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Mila Rivkin,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration

  Affiliation Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Ally Ahmed Ramadhan Lasu,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration

  Affiliation Public Health Consultant, Juba, Republic of South Sudan

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• Lul P. Riek,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation External Coordination & Research, Ministry of Health, Juba, Republic of South Sudan

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• Richard Lako,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration

  Affiliation Ministry of Health South Sudan, Juba, Republic of South Sudan

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• Shimon Edvardson,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Neurology Unit, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Sagit-Arbel Alon,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Eithan Galun,

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

  Affiliation Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Mia Levite

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

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