HIV-associated nephropathy: Protocol and rationale for an exploratory genotype-phenotype study in a sub-Saharan African population

• Aminu Abba Yusuf ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aminu Abba Yusuf, Agnes B. Fogo, C. William Wester, Muktar Hassan Aliyu

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: aayusuf.hae@buk.edu.ng

  Affiliation Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Bayero University Kano/Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6132-9534

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• Baba Maiyaki Musa ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Bayero University Kano/Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria, Africa Center of Excellence for Population Health and Policy

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• Najibah Aliyu Galadanci ,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

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• Musa Babashani ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Bayero University Kano/Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria

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• Aminu Zakari Mohammed ,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Histopathology, Bayero University Kano/Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria

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• Donna J. Ingles ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Vanderbilt Institute of Global Health (VIGH), Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Agnes B. Fogo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aminu Abba Yusuf, Agnes B. Fogo, C. William Wester, Muktar Hassan Aliyu

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• C. William Wester ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aminu Abba Yusuf, Agnes B. Fogo, C. William Wester, Muktar Hassan Aliyu

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

  Affiliation Vanderbilt Institute of Global Health (VIGH), Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Muktar Hassan Aliyu

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aminu Abba Yusuf, Agnes B. Fogo, C. William Wester, Muktar Hassan Aliyu

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Vanderbilt Institute of Global Health (VIGH), Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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