Genome-wide association studies reveal the role of polymorphisms affecting factor H binding protein expression in host invasion by Neisseria meningitidis

• Sarah G. Earle ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah G. Earle, Mariya Lobanovska, Hayley Lavender

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Big Data Institute, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0738-7557

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• Mariya Lobanovska ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah G. Earle, Mariya Lobanovska, Hayley Lavender

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Hayley Lavender ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah G. Earle, Mariya Lobanovska, Hayley Lavender

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9996-8107

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• Changyan Tang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington United States of America

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• Rachel M. Exley,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration

  Affiliation Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Elisa Ramos-Sevillano,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Douglas F. Browning,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Current address: College of Health & Life Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4672-3514

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• Vasiliki Kostiou,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Software

  Affiliation Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Experimental Medicine Division, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Odile B. Harrison,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Holly B. Bratcher,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7246-7772

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• Gabriele Varani ,

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

  * E-mail: varani@uw.edu (GV); christoph.tang@path.ox.ac.uk (CMT); daniel.wilson@bdi.ox.ac.uk (DJW); martin.maiden@zoo.ox.ac.uk (MCJM)

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-7144

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• Christoph M. Tang ,

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

  * E-mail: varani@uw.edu (GV); christoph.tang@path.ox.ac.uk (CMT); daniel.wilson@bdi.ox.ac.uk (DJW); martin.maiden@zoo.ox.ac.uk (MCJM)

  Affiliation Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Daniel J. Wilson ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: varani@uw.edu (GV); christoph.tang@path.ox.ac.uk (CMT); daniel.wilson@bdi.ox.ac.uk (DJW); martin.maiden@zoo.ox.ac.uk (MCJM)

  Affiliations Big Data Institute, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, Oxford, United Kingdom, Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0940-3311

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• Martin C. J. Maiden

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: varani@uw.edu (GV); christoph.tang@path.ox.ac.uk (CMT); daniel.wilson@bdi.ox.ac.uk (DJW); martin.maiden@zoo.ox.ac.uk (MCJM)

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6321-5138

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