About the Authors
- Gerard A. J. Morris
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Contributed equally to this work with: Gerard A. J. Morris, Digna R. Velez Edwards
Affiliation MRC Laboratories, Fajara, The Gambia (West Africa)
- Digna R. Velez Edwards
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Contributed equally to this work with: Gerard A. J. Morris, Digna R. Velez Edwards
Current address: Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Institute of Medicine and Public Health, and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Affiliations Unità di Genetica Medica, Ospedale San Pietro FBF, Rome, Italy, Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics and Hussman Institute of Human Genomics, University of Miami, Florida, United States of America
- Philip C. Hill
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Affiliations MRC Laboratories, Fajara, The Gambia (West Africa), Centre for International Health, University of Otago School of Medicine, New Zealand
- Christian Wejse
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Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark, Bandim Health Project, Danish Epidemiology Science Centre and Statens Serum Institute, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
- Cyrille Bisseye
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Affiliation MRC Laboratories, Fajara, The Gambia (West Africa)
- Rikke Olesen
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark
- Todd L. Edwards
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Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Affiliations Unità di Genetica Medica, Ospedale San Pietro FBF, Rome, Italy, Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics and Hussman Institute of Human Genomics, University of Miami, Florida, United States of America
- John R. Gilbert
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Affiliation Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics and Hussman Institute of Human Genomics, University of Miami, Florida, United States of America
- Jamie L. Myers
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Affiliation Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics and Hussman Institute of Human Genomics, University of Miami, Florida, United States of America
- Martin E. Stryjewski
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Affiliation Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas “Norberto Quirno” (CEMIC), Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Eduardo Abbate
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Affiliation Hospital F.J. Muñiz, Department of Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Rosa Estevan
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Affiliation Hospital F.J. Muñiz, Department of Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Carol D. Hamilton
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Affiliation Family Health International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America and Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Alessandra Tacconelli
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Affiliation Unità di Genetica Medica, Ospedale San Pietro FBF, Rome, Italy
- Giuseppe Novelli
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Biopatologia e Diagnostica per Immagini, Università di Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
- Ercole Brunetti
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Affiliation Unità di Genetica Medica, Ospedale San Pietro FBF, Rome, Italy
- Peter Aaby
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Affiliation Bandim Health Project, Danish Epidemiology Science Centre and Statens Serum Institute, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
- Morten Sodemann
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Affiliation University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
- Lars Østergaard
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark
- Richard Adegbola
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Affiliation MRC Laboratories, Fajara, The Gambia (West Africa)
- Scott M. Williams
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Affiliation Center for Human Genetics Research, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- William K. Scott
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* E-mail: BScott@med.miami.edu (WKS); sirugo.giorgio@fbfrm.it (GS)
Affiliation Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics and Hussman Institute of Human Genomics, University of Miami, Florida, United States of America
- Giorgio Sirugo
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* E-mail: BScott@med.miami.edu (WKS); sirugo.giorgio@fbfrm.it (GS)
Affiliation Unità di Genetica Medica, Ospedale San Pietro FBF, Rome, Italy
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: GS GAM SMW WKS CDH CW. Performed the experiments: CB RO CW PCH MES EA JRG JM. Analyzed the data: DRV-E TLE AT GN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RE EB PA MS LO RA GS. Wrote the paper: GAM GS SMW WKS DRV-E.