Genetic Variation in TLR Genes in Ugandan and South African Populations and Comparison with HapMap Data

• Allison R. Baker ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Allison R. Baker, Feiyou Qiu

  Current address: Clinical Services Group, Hospital Corporations of America, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Feiyou Qiu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Allison R. Baker, Feiyou Qiu

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• April Kaur Randhawa,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• David J. Horne,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Mark D. Adams,

  Current address: J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Genetics and Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Muki Shey,

  Affiliation South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine and School of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa

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• Jill Barnholtz-Sloan,

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Harriet Mayanja-Kizza,

  Affiliations Uganda – Case Western Reserve University Research Collaboration, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, and Kampala, Uganda, Makerere University School of Medicine and Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda

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• Gilla Kaplan,

  Affiliation Public Health Research Institute, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Willem A. Hanekom,

  Affiliation South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine and School of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa

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• W. Henry Boom,

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Uganda – Case Western Reserve University Research Collaboration, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, and Kampala, Uganda

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• Thomas R. Hawn ,

  ¶These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Catherine M. Stein, for the Tuberculosis Research Unit (TBRU) and South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative Team (SATVI)

  * E-mail: catherine.stein@case.edu

  ¶These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Uganda – Case Western Reserve University Research Collaboration, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, and Kampala, Uganda

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