About the Authors

Faroudy Boufassa

faroudy.boufassa@inserm.fr

Affiliations Inserm, CESP Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, U1018, Epidemiology of HIV and STI Team, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France, Université Paris-Sud, UMRS 1018, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France

Asier Saez-Cirion

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Unité de Régulation des Infections Rétrovirales, Paris, France

Jérome Lechenadec

Affiliations Inserm, CESP Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, U1018, Epidemiology of HIV and STI Team, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France, Université Paris-Sud, UMRS 1018, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France

David Zucman

Affiliation AP-HP, Service de Médecine Interne, Hôpital Foch, Suresnes, France

Véronique Avettand-Fenoel

Affiliation Université Paris-Descartes EA3620, AP-HP, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France

Alain Venet

Affiliation INSERM U1012, Université Paris-Sud, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France

Christine Rouzioux

Affiliation Université Paris-Descartes EA3620, AP-HP, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France

Jean-François Delfraissy

Affiliation AP-HP, Service de Médecine Interne, Hôpital de Bicêtre, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

Olivier Lambotte

Contributed equally to this work with: Olivier Lambotte, Laurence Meyer

Affiliation AP-HP, Service de Médecine Interne, Hôpital de Bicêtre, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

Laurence Meyer

Contributed equally to this work with: Olivier Lambotte, Laurence Meyer

Affiliations Inserm, CESP Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, U1018, Epidemiology of HIV and STI Team, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France, Université Paris-Sud, UMRS 1018, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France, AP-HP, Service de Santé Publique, Hôpital de Bicêtre, le Kremlin Bicêtre, France

for the ANRS EP36 HIV Controllers Study Group

Please see the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FB ASC OL LM. Performed the experiments: DZ VAF CR AV JFD OL. Analyzed the data: FB JL LM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VAF CR AV. Wrote the paper: FB LM OL ASC.