About the Authors
- Jennifer Listgarten
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* E-mail: jennl@microsoft.com (JL); heckerma@microsoft.com (DH)
Affiliation Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, United States of America
- Zabrina Brumme
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Affiliation Partners AIDS Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Carl Kadie
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Affiliation Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, United States of America
- Gao Xiaojiang
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Affiliation SAIC-Frederick, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
- Bruce Walker
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Affiliations Partners AIDS Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
- Mary Carrington
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Affiliation SAIC-Frederick, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
- Philip Goulder
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Affiliations Partners AIDS Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- David Heckerman
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* E-mail: jennl@microsoft.com (JL); heckerma@microsoft.com (DH)
Affiliation Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, United States of America
Competing Interests
A tool based on our approach will be made freely available for research purposes at http://microsoft.com/science.
Author Contributions
JL contributed algorithm and experiment design, implementation and running of the experiments, and writing of the paper. ZLB organized the data and aided in the writing and experiment design. CK helped make the public Web tool version of the algorithm available. GX provided HLA typing of private data. BDW organized the data. MC provided HLA typing of private data, and aided in the writing. PJG presented the need for statistical HLA refinement. DH contributed algorithm and experiment design, and contributed to the writing of the paper.