The DARC-null trait is associated with moderate modulation of NK cell profiles and unaltered cytolytic T cell profiles in black South Africans

• Kewreshini K. Naidoo,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation HIV Pathogenesis Programme, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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• Zesuliwe B. Shangase,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation HIV Pathogenesis Programme, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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• Tabassum Rashid,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation HIV Pathogenesis Programme, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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• Ayanda Ngubane,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation HIV Pathogenesis Programme, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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• Nasreen Ismail,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation HIV Pathogenesis Programme, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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• Thumbi Ndung’u,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations HIV Pathogenesis Programme, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Africa Health Research Institute, Durban, South Africa, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Christina F. Thobakgale

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: christina.thobakgale@wits.ac.za

  Affiliations HIV Pathogenesis Programme, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, Centre for HIV and STIs, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5619-8894

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