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Association of ACE1 I/D polymorphism and susceptibility to COVID-19 in Egyptian children and adolescents.
Pediatric research - 1 Oct 2024
Boraey Naglaa F, Bebars Marwa A, Wahba Ali A, Abd El Lateef Hanan M, Attia Mohamed Atif, Elsayed Ahmed H, Rashed Khalid A, Sorour Ehab I, Ahmed Mohamed F, Abd-Elrehim Ghada A B, Soliman Attia A, Shehab Mohamed M M, Elhindawy Eman M, Ibraheem Ahmed A A, Shehata Hassan, Yousif Yousif M, Hashem Mustafa I A, Ahmed Amani A, Emam Ahmed A, Gameil Dalia M, Abdelhady Eman M, Abdelkhalek Khalil, Morsi Walaa E M A, Selim Dalia M, Razek Suzan A, Ashraf Bassem, Saleh Ahmed S E, Eltrawy Heba H, Alanwar Mohamed I, Fouad Rania A, Omar Walaa E, Nabil Rehab M, Abdelhamed Mohamed R, Ibrahim Mona Yousri, Malek Mai M, Afify Mona R, Alharbi Mohanned T, Nagshabandi Mohammed K, Tarabulsi Muyassar K, Qashqary Mohammed Esmail, Almoraie Laila M, Salem Hanan F, Rashad Manal M, El-Gaaly Sonya A A, El-Deeb Nahawand A, Abdallah Amany M, Fakhreldin Ahmed R, Hassouba Mohamed, Massoud Yasmine M, Attaya Mona S M, Haridi Mohammed K
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Given the sparse data on the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) and its biological effector molecules ACE1 and ACE2 in pediatric COVID-19 cases, we investigated whether the ACE1 insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism could be a genetic marker for susceptibility to COVID-19 in Egyptian children and adolescents. METHODS: This was a case-control study included four hundred sixty patients diagnosed with...
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