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The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neandertals
2020-07-03
Abstract excerpt
A recent genetic association study (Ellinghaus et al. 2020) identified a gene cluster on chromosome 3 as a risk locus for respiratory failure in SARS-CoV-2. Recent data comprising 3,199 hospitalized COVID-19 patients and controls reproduce this and find that it is the major genetic risk factor for severe SARS-CoV-2 infection and hospitalization (COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative). Here, we show that the risk is c...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 0e287aee-f8ff-5ecc-bebf-5c35b071e7ee
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.07.03.186296