Fig. 1: Time-to-first episode of infections in relation to IFNL4- rs368234815 polymorphism in 914 children from the Mali birth cohort study.

Malaria – positivity by blood smear test with/without additional clinical symptoms, includes both severe (SM) and non-severe malaria; GII—gastrointestinal infections; RI—respiratory infections. The plots are for Kaplan–Meyer analysis, P values are for Cox proportional hazards regression models with per-allele linear trends, for malaria—adjusting for HBB status. Padj—additionally adjusting for sex and paternal tribes.