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COVID-19 vulnerability: the potential impact of genetic susceptibility and airborne transmission.
Human genomics - 12 May 2020
Godri Pollitt Krystal J, Peccia Jordan, Ko Albert I, Kaminski Naftali, Dela Cruz Charles S, Nebert Daniel W, Reichardt Juergen K V, Thompson David C, Vasiliou Vasilis
Abstract excerpt
The recent coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by SARS-CoV-2, is inarguably the most challenging coronavirus outbreak relative to the previous outbreaks involving SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV. With the number of COVID-19 cases now exceeding 2 million worldwide, it is apparent that (i) transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is very high and (ii) there are large variations in disease severity, one component of which may be genetic...
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