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Altered Blood Cell Traits Underlie a Major Genetic Locus of Severe COVID-19.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences - 13 Jul 2021
Zhou Jingqi, Sun Yitang, Huang Weishan, Ye Kaixiong
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The genetic locus 3p21.31 has been associated with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), but the underlying pathophysiological mechanism is unknown. METHODS: To identify intermediate traits associated with the 3p21.31 locus, we first performed a phenome-wide association study (PheWAS) with 923 phenotypes in 310 999 European individuals from the UK Biobank. For genes potentially regulated by the...
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