About the Authors

Roger Haruki Yamakawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Roger Haruki Yamakawa, Patrícia Keiko Saito, Geórgia Fernanda Gelmini, José Samuel da Silva, Maria da Graça Bicalho, Sueli Donizete Borelli

Affiliation Department of Basic Health Science, Universidade Estadual de Maringá – Maringá, Paraná, Brazil

Patrícia Keiko Saito

Contributed equally to this work with: Roger Haruki Yamakawa, Patrícia Keiko Saito, Geórgia Fernanda Gelmini, José Samuel da Silva, Maria da Graça Bicalho, Sueli Donizete Borelli

Affiliation Department of Basic Health Science, Universidade Estadual de Maringá – Maringá, Paraná, Brazil

Geórgia Fernanda Gelmini

Contributed equally to this work with: Roger Haruki Yamakawa, Patrícia Keiko Saito, Geórgia Fernanda Gelmini, José Samuel da Silva, Maria da Graça Bicalho, Sueli Donizete Borelli

Affiliation Laboratório de Imunogenética e Histocompatibilidade, Department of Genetics, Universidade Federal do Paraná – Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

José Samuel da Silva

Contributed equally to this work with: Roger Haruki Yamakawa, Patrícia Keiko Saito, Geórgia Fernanda Gelmini, José Samuel da Silva, Maria da Graça Bicalho, Sueli Donizete Borelli

Affiliation Laboratório de Imunogenética e Histocompatibilidade, Department of Genetics, Universidade Federal do Paraná – Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Maria da Graça Bicalho

Contributed equally to this work with: Roger Haruki Yamakawa, Patrícia Keiko Saito, Geórgia Fernanda Gelmini, José Samuel da Silva, Maria da Graça Bicalho, Sueli Donizete Borelli

Affiliation Laboratório de Imunogenética e Histocompatibilidade, Department of Genetics, Universidade Federal do Paraná – Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Sueli Donizete Borelli

Contributed equally to this work with: Roger Haruki Yamakawa, Patrícia Keiko Saito, Geórgia Fernanda Gelmini, José Samuel da Silva, Maria da Graça Bicalho, Sueli Donizete Borelli

sueliborelli@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Basic Health Science, Universidade Estadual de Maringá – Maringá, Paraná, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RHY PKS GFG JSS MGB SDB. Data curation: RHY PKS GFG JSS MGB SDB. Formal analysis: RHY PKS GFG JSS MGB SDB. Funding acquisition: RHY PKS GFG JSS MGB SDB. Investigation: RHY PKS GFG JSS MGB SDB. Methodology: RHY PKS GFG JSS MGB SDB. Project administration: RHY PKS GFG JSS MGB SDB. Resources: RHY PKS GFG JSS MGB SDB. Software: RHY PKS GFG JSS MGB SDB. Supervision: RHY PKS GFG JSS MGB SDB. Validation: RHY PKS GFG JSS MGB SDB. Visualization: RHY PKS GFG JSS MGB SDB. Writing – original draft: RHY PKS GFG JSS MGB SDB. Writing – review & editing: RHY PKS GFG JSS MGB SDB.