About the Authors

Sunny H. Wong

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Sailesh Gochhait

Affiliation National Centre of Applied Human Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Dheeraj Malhotra

Affiliation National Centre of Applied Human Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Fredrik H. Pettersson

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Yik Y. Teo

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Chiea C. Khor

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Host Susceptibility to Infection Program, Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore

Anna Rautanen

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Stephen J. Chapman

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Tara C. Mills

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Amit Srivastava

Affiliation National Centre of Applied Human Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Aleksey Rudko

Affiliation Research Institute of Medical Genetics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Tomsk, Russia

Maxim B. Freidin

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Research Institute of Medical Genetics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Tomsk, Russia

Valery P. Puzyrev

Affiliation Research Institute of Medical Genetics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Tomsk, Russia

Shafat Ali

Affiliation National Centre of Applied Human Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Shweta Aggarwal

Affiliation National Centre of Applied Human Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Rupali Chopra

Affiliation National Centre of Applied Human Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Belum S. N. Reddy

Affiliation Department of Dermatology and Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Maulana Azad Medical College, Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital, New Delhi, India

Vijay K. Garg

Affiliation Department of Dermatology and Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Maulana Azad Medical College, Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital, New Delhi, India

Suchismita Roy

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Sarah Meisner

Affiliation Bath Royal United Hospital Trust, Combe Park, Bath, United Kingdom

Sunil K. Hazra

Affiliation Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, India

Bibhuti Saha

Affiliation Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, India

Sian Floyd

Affiliation Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Brendan J. Keating

Affiliation Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Cecilia Kim

Affiliation Center for Applied Genomics, Abramson Research Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Benjamin P. Fairfax

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Julian C. Knight

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Philip C. Hill

Affiliation MRC Laboratories, Fajara, The Gambia

Richard A. Adegbola

Affiliation MRC Laboratories, Fajara, The Gambia

Hakon Hakonarson

Affiliation Center for Applied Genomics, Abramson Research Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Paul E. M. Fine

Affiliation Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Ramasamy M. Pitchappan

Affiliation Centre for Excellence in Genomic Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India

Rameshwar N. K. Bamezai

Affiliation National Centre of Applied Human Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Adrian V. S. Hill

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Fredrik O. Vannberg

vannberg@well.ox.ac.uk

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: S. Wong, C. Khor, A. Rautanen, S. Chapman, B. Keating, H. Hakonarson, P. Fine, R. Pitchappan, R. Bamezai, A. Hill, F. Vannberg. Performed the experiments: S. Wong, S. Gochhait, D. Malhotra, T. Mills, A. Srivastava, S. Ali, S. Aggarwal, R. Chopra, B. Keating, C. Kim, F. Vannberg. Analyzed the data: S. Wong, S. Gochhait, D. Malhotra, F. Pettersson, Y. Teo, A. Rautanen, A. Srivastava, S. Ali, S. Aggarwal, R. Chopra, S. Floyd, C. Kim, F. Vannberg. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: F. Pettersson, Y. Teo, C. Khor, T. Mills, A. Rudko, M. Freidin, V. Puzyrev, S. Ali, B. Reddy, V. Garg, S. Roy, S. Meisner, S. Hazra, B. Saha, B. Keating, B. Fairfax, J. Knight, P. Hill, R. Adegbola, H. Hakonarson, P. Fine, R. Pitchappan, R. Bamezai, A. Hill. Wrote the paper: S. Wong, A. Hill, F. Vannberg.