About the Authors

Ousmane Toure

Affiliation Malaria Research and Training Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali

Salimata Konate

Affiliation Malaria Research and Training Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali

Sibiri Sissoko

Affiliation Malaria Research and Training Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali

Amadou Niangaly

Affiliation Malaria Research and Training Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali

Abdoulaye Barry

Affiliations Malaria Research and Training Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali, Centre hospitalier Universitaire Gabriel Toure Hospital, Bamako, Mali

Abdourahmane H. Sall

Affiliations Malaria Research and Training Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali, Centre hospitalier Universitaire Gabriel Toure Hospital, Bamako, Mali

Elisabeth Diarra

Affiliations Malaria Research and Training Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali, Centre hospitalier Universitaire Gabriel Toure Hospital, Bamako, Mali

Belco Poudiougou

Affiliation Malaria Research and Training Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali

Nuno Sepulveda

Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Susana Campino

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Kirk A. Rockett

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Taane G. Clark

Contributed equally to this work with: Taane G. Clark, Mahamadou A. Thera, Ogobara Doumbo

taane.clark@lshtm.ac.uk (TC); mthera@icermali.org (MT); okd@icermali.org (OD)

Affiliations Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Mahamadou A. Thera

Contributed equally to this work with: Taane G. Clark, Mahamadou A. Thera, Ogobara Doumbo

taane.clark@lshtm.ac.uk (TC); mthera@icermali.org (MT); okd@icermali.org (OD)

Affiliation Malaria Research and Training Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali

Ogobara Doumbo

Contributed equally to this work with: Taane G. Clark, Mahamadou A. Thera, Ogobara Doumbo

taane.clark@lshtm.ac.uk (TC); mthera@icermali.org (MT); okd@icermali.org (OD)

Affiliation Malaria Research and Training Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali

in collaboration with The MalariaGEN Consortium

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OT KR TC MT OD. Performed the experiments: OT SK SS AN AB AS ED BP. Analyzed the data: TC NS SC OT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OD MalariaGen TC. Wrote the paper: TC OT OD MT KR SC.