Significant Association of KIR2DL3-HLA-C1 Combination with Cerebral Malaria and Implications for Co-evolution of KIR and HLA

• Kouyuki Hirayasu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kouyuki Hirayasu, Toshio Yabe

  * E-mail: hirayasu@ifrec.osaka-u.ac.jp (KH); to-yabe@tokyo.bc.jrc.or.jp (TY)

  Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan, Japanese Red Cross Tokyo Blood Center, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Immunochemistry, WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Jun Ohashi,

  Affiliation Doctoral Program in Life System Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Koichi Kashiwase,

  Affiliation Japanese Red Cross Tokyo Blood Center, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Hathairad Hananantachai,

  Affiliation Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

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• Izumi Naka,

  Affiliation Doctoral Program in Life System Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Atsuko Ogawa,

  Affiliation Japanese Red Cross Tokyo Blood Center, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Minoko Takanashi,

  Affiliation Japanese Red Cross Tokyo Blood Center, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Masahiro Satake,

  Affiliation Japanese Red Cross Tokyo Blood Center, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kazunori Nakajima,

  Affiliation Japanese Red Cross Tokyo Blood Center, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Peter Parham,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

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• Hisashi Arase,

  Affiliations Department of Immunochemistry, WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Department of Immunochemistry, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama, Japan

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• Katsushi Tokunaga,

  Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Jintana Patarapotikul,

  Affiliation Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

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• Toshio Yabe

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kouyuki Hirayasu, Toshio Yabe

  * E-mail: hirayasu@ifrec.osaka-u.ac.jp (KH); to-yabe@tokyo.bc.jrc.or.jp (TY)

  Affiliation Japanese Red Cross Tokyo Blood Center, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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