About the Authors

Nicolas Schleinitz

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicolas Schleinitz, Michael E. March

Current address: Service de Médecine Interne, CHU Conception AP-HM, Marseille, France

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Michael E. March

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicolas Schleinitz, Michael E. March

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Eric O. Long

eLong@nih.gov

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NS EOL. Performed the experiments: NS MEM. Analyzed the data: NS MEM EOL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NS MEM. Wrote the paper: MEM EOL.