Article
Expression Level Analysis of ACE2 Receptor Gene in African-American and Non-African-American COVID-19 Patients
2023-09-12
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background</h4> The COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has spread rapidly across the continents. While the incidence of COVID-19 has been reported to be higher among African-American individuals, the rate of mortality has been lower compared to that of non-African-Americans. ACE2 is involved in COVID-19 as SARS-CoV-2 uses the ACE2 enzyme to enter host cells. Although the difference in COVID-19 incidence c...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 12ffd8da-caa9-539a-9017-64bb9bb97db0
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.09.11.557129
