Article
Shared genetic etiology between idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and COVID-19 severity
2020-12-16
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background: </h4> Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a complex lung disease, characterized by progressive lung scarring. Severe COVID-19 is associated with substantial pneumonitis and has a number of shared major risk factors with IPF. This study aimed to determine the genetic correlation between IPF and severe COVID-19 and assess a potential causal role of genetically increased risk of IPF on COVID-19 sev...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 2e922597-fbc3-54bb-9c16-e617316e182e
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.12.15.20248279
