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The <i>MUC5B</i> Promotor Polymorphism Associates with Severe COVID-19 in the European Population
2020-12-15
Abstract excerpt
Diversity in response on exposure to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is common and may be related to the innate immune response in the elderly. The mucin MUC5B is an important component of the innate immune response and expression levels are associated with the <i>MUC5B</i> promoter polymorphism, rs35705950. The high expressing T-allele is a risk allele for the non-infectious aging lun...
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- Literature Corpus work
- a1b73a21-dce5-5803-8ef2-7395d1fb15cb
- DOI
- 10.2139/ssrn.3736146
