About the Authors

Lisa E. Creary

Affiliation King's College London School of Medicine, Division of Gene and Cell, Based Therapy, James Black Centre, Denmark Hill Campus, London, United Kingdom

Pinar Ulug

Affiliation King's College London School of Medicine, Division of Gene and Cell, Based Therapy, James Black Centre, Denmark Hill Campus, London, United Kingdom

Stephan Menzel

Affiliation King's College London School of Medicine, Division of Gene and Cell, Based Therapy, James Black Centre, Denmark Hill Campus, London, United Kingdom

Colin A. McKenzie

Affiliation Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica

Neil A. Hanchard

Affiliation Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica

Veronica Taylor

Affiliation National Blood Transfusion Centre, Kingston, Jamaica

Martin Farrall

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

Terrence E. Forrester

Affiliation Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica

Swee Lay Thein

sl.thein@kcl.ac.uk

Affiliations King's College London School of Medicine, Division of Gene and Cell, Based Therapy, James Black Centre, Denmark Hill Campus, London, United Kingdom, King's College Hospital, Department of Haematological Medicine, Denmark Hill, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SLT. Performed the experiments: LEC PU. Analyzed the data: LEC SM NAH MF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VT SLT. Wrote the paper: LEC SM CAM. Directed statistical analyses: MF. Contributed to writing of paper: MF. Co-directed research: SM CAM TEF. Contributed to writing of paper: SLT.