Zhiwei Liu, Yang Luo, Samuel Kirimunda, Murielle Verboom, Olusegun O Onabajo, Mateus H Gouveia, Martin D Ogwang, Patrick Kerchan, Steven J Reynolds, Constance N Tenge, Pamela A Were, Robert T Kuremu, Walter N Wekesa, Nestory Masalu, Esther Kawira, Tobias Kinyera, Isaac Otim, Ismail D Legason, Hadijah Nabalende, Herry Dhudha, Leona W Ayers, Kishor Bhatia, James J Goedert, Nathan Cole, Wen Luo, Jia Liu, Michelle Manning, Belynda Hicks, Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson, George Chagaluka, W Thomas Johnston, Nora Mutalima, Eric Borgstein, George N Liomba, Steve Kamiza, Nyengo Mkandawire, Collins Mitambo, Elizabeth M Molyneux, Robert Newton, Ann W Hsing, James E Mensah, Anthony A Adjei, Amy Hutchinson, Mary Carrington, Meredith Yeager, Rainer Blasczyk, Stephen J Chanock, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Sam M Mbulaiteye
Burkitt lymphoma (BL) is responsible for many childhood cancers in sub-Saharan Africa, where it is linked to recurrent or chronic infection by Epstein-Barr virus or Plasmodium falciparum. However, whether human leukocyte antigen (HLA) polymorphisms, which regulate immune response, are associated with BL has not been well investigated, which limits our understanding of BL etiology. Here we investigate this association among 4,645 children aged 0-15 years, 800 with BL, enrolled in Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, and Malawi...
January 5, 2024: Communications Biology