HLA class I associations with the severity of COVID-19 disease in the United Arab Emirates

• Guan K. Tay,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Center for Biotechnology, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Psychiatry, UWA Medical School, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia

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• Halima Alnaqbi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Biotechnology, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7799-8038

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• Sarah Chehadeh,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Center for Biotechnology, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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• Braulio Peramo,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Al Ain Fertility Center, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

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• Farah Mustafa,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1081-3756

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• Tahir A. Rizvi,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2572-1678

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• Bassam H. Mahboub,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Rashid Hospital, Dubai Health Authority, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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• Maimunah Uddin,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatric Infectious Disease, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1175-4145

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• Nawal Alkaabi,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatric Infectious Disease, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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• Eman Alefishat,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Biotechnology, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Department Biopharmaceutics and Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4584-9166

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• Herbert F. Jelinek,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Biotechnology, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Center of Heath Engineering Innovation, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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• Habiba Alsafar ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: habiba.alsafar@ku.ac.ae.

  Affiliations Center for Biotechnology, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7141-1438

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• on behalf of the UAE COVID-19 Collaborative Partnership

  ¶A complete listing of UAE COVID-19 Collaborative Partnership can be found in the Acknowledgments.

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