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HLA-B*44 and C*01 Prevalence Correlates with Covid19 Spreading across Italy
23 Jul 2020
Abstract excerpt
The spread of COVID-19 is showing huge, unexplained, differences between northern and southern Italy. We hypothesized that the regional prevalence of specific class I human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles, which shape the anti-viral immune response, might partly underlie these differences. Through an ecological approach, we analyzed whether a set of HLA alleles (A, B, C), known to be involved in the immune...
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