About the Authors

Benoît Vingert

Affiliation Unité d'Immunogénétique Cellulaire, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Santiago Perez-Patrigeon

Contributed equally to this work with: Santiago Perez-Patrigeon, Patricia Jeannin

Affiliation Unité d'Immunogénétique Cellulaire, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Patricia Jeannin

Contributed equally to this work with: Santiago Perez-Patrigeon, Patricia Jeannin

Affiliation Unité d'Immunogénétique Cellulaire, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Olivier Lambotte

Affiliations Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) U802, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Bicêtre Hospital, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France, Université Paris-Sud, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

Faroudy Boufassa

Affiliation INSERM U822, Bicêtre Hospital, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

Fabrice Lemaître

Affiliations G5 Dynamiques des Réponses Immunes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, INSERM U668, Equipe Avenir, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

William W. Kwok

Affiliation Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Ioannis Theodorou

Affiliation INSERM U543, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France

Jean-François Delfraissy

Affiliations Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) U802, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Bicêtre Hospital, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France, Université Paris-Sud, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

Jacques Thèze

Affiliation Unité d'Immunogénétique Cellulaire, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Lisa A. Chakrabarti

chakra@pasteur.fr

Affiliation Unité d'Immunogénétique Cellulaire, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

for the ANRS EP36 HIV Controllers Study Group

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BV OL JT LAC. Performed the experiments: BV SPP PJ IT. Analyzed the data: BV SPP PJ LAC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OL FB FL WWK JFD. Wrote the paper: BV LAC. Recruited patients: OL FB JFD.