About the Authors

Lander Egaña-Gorroño

Affiliation Group of Genomics and Pharmacogenomics, AIDS Research Group, Catalan project for the development of an HIV vaccine (HIVACAT), Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Tuixent Escribà

Affiliation Group of Genomics and Pharmacogenomics, AIDS Research Group, Catalan project for the development of an HIV vaccine (HIVACAT), Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Nicolas Boulanger

Affiliations Group of Genomics and Pharmacogenomics, AIDS Research Group, Catalan project for the development of an HIV vaccine (HIVACAT), Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico, Scientific Park of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Alberto Crespo Guardo

Affiliation Immunopathology and Cellular Immunology, AIDS Research Group, Catalan project for the development of an HIV vaccine (HIVACAT), Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Agathe León

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Manel Enric Bargalló

Affiliation Immunopathology and Cellular Immunology, AIDS Research Group, Catalan project for the development of an HIV vaccine (HIVACAT), Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Felipe Garcia

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

José María Gatell

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Montserrat Plana

Contributed equally to this work with: Montserrat Plana, Mireia Arnedo

Affiliation Immunopathology and Cellular Immunology, AIDS Research Group, Catalan project for the development of an HIV vaccine (HIVACAT), Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Mireia Arnedo

Contributed equally to this work with: Montserrat Plana, Mireia Arnedo

marnedo@clinic.ub.es

Affiliation Group of Genomics and Pharmacogenomics, AIDS Research Group, Catalan project for the development of an HIV vaccine (HIVACAT), Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

HIV Controllers Consortium of the AIDS Spanish Network

Membership of the HIV Controllers Consortium of the AIDS Spanish Network is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA MP. Performed the experiments: LE TE NB MEB. Analyzed the data: MA LE NB. Wrote the paper: MA LE ACG MP JMG FG. Provided samples and collected data: FG AL. Critically revised and subsequently approved the final version: MA MP LE TE NB MEB ACG JMG FG AL.