Anti-IFN-γ autoantibodies are strongly associated with HLA-DR*15:02/16:02 and HLA-DQ*05:01/05:02 across Southeast Asia

Affiliations

• ¹ Laboratory of Human Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan; Chang Gung Immunology Consortium, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² Laboratory of Human Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
• ³ Clinical Informatics and Medical Statistics Research Center, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
• ⁴ Immunogenetics Laboratory, Medical Research Department, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
• ⁵ State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Carol Yu Centre for Infection, Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China.
• ⁶ St Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller Branch, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY.
• ⁷ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
• ⁸ Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
• ⁹ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
• ¹⁰ St Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller Branch, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY; Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Branch, INSERM-U1163, Paris, France; Imagine Institute, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France.
• ¹¹ Clinic for Immunology and Rheumatology, Medical School of Hanover, Hanover, Germany.
• ¹² Laboratory of Human Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan; Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
• ¹³ Srinagarind Hospital, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand.
• ¹⁴ Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand.
• ¹⁵ Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
• ¹⁶ St Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller Branch, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY; Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Branch, INSERM-U1163, Paris, France; Imagine Institute, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York, NY; Pediatric Immuno-Hematology Unit, Necker Hospital for Sick Children, AP-HP, Paris, France.
• ¹⁷ Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Immunology, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute for Health Research, Cambridge Biomedical Research Center, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
• ¹⁸ Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.