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Association between HLA-C alleles and COVID-19 severity in a pilot study with a Spanish Mediterranean Caucasian cohort.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2022
Vigón Lorena, Galán Miguel, Torres Montserrat, Martín-Galiano Antonio J, Rodríguez-Mora Sara, Mateos Elena, Corona Magdalena, Malo Rosa, Navarro Cristina, Murciano-Antón María Aránzazu, García-Gutiérrez Valentín, Planelles Vicente, Martínez-Laso Jorge, López-Huertas María Rosa, Coiras Mayte
Abstract excerpt
The clinical presentations of COVID-19 may range from an asymptomatic or mild infection to a critical or fatal disease. Several host factors such as elderly age, male gender, and previous comorbidities seem to be involved in the most severe outcomes, but also an impaired immune response that causes a hyperinflammatory state but is unable to clear the infection. In order to get further understanding about this...
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