The genetic risk for COVID-19 severity is associated with defective immune responses

Y Kuijpers, X Chu, M Jaeger, SJ Moorlag… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Recent genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of COVID-19 patients of European
ancestry have identified genetic loci significantly associated with disease severity. Here, we …

Deciphering the role of host genetics in susceptibility to severe COVID-19

ME Carter-Timofte, SE Jørgensen, MR Freytag… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) describes a set of symptoms that develop following
infection by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Whilst …

[HTML][HTML] Integrative analyses identify susceptibility genes underlying COVID-19 hospitalization

GA Pathak, K Singh, TW Miller-Fleming, FR Wendt… - MedRxiv, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Despite rapid progress in characterizing the role of host genetics in SARS-Cov-2 infection,
there is limited understanding of genes and pathways that contribute to COVID-19. Here, we …

Immunogenetic association underlying severe COVID-19

K McCoy, A Peterson, Y Tian, Y Sang - Vaccines, 2020 - mdpi.com
SARS-CoV2 has caused the current pandemic of new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-
19) worldwide. Clinical outcomes of COVID-19 illness range broadly from asymptotic and …

[HTML][HTML] A global effort to define the human genetics of protective immunity to SARS-CoV-2 infection

JL Casanova, HC Su, L Abel, A Aiuti, S Almuhsen… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
SARS-CoV-2 infection displays immense inter-individual clinical variability, ranging from
silent infection to lethal disease. The role of human genetics in determining clinical response …

A Phenome-Wide Association Study of genes associated with COVID-19 severity reveals shared genetics with complex diseases in the Million Veteran Program

A Verma, NL Tsao, LO Thomann, YL Ho… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The study aims to determine the shared genetic architecture between COVID-19 severity
with existing medical conditions using electronic health record (EHR) data. We conducted a …

An explainable model of host genetic interactions linked to COVID-19 severity

A Onoja, N Picchiotti, C Fallerini, M Baldassarri… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
We employed a multifaceted computational strategy to identify the genetic factors
contributing to increased risk of severe COVID-19 infection from a Whole Exome …

Germline genetic variants of viral entry and innate immunity may influence susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection: toward a polygenic risk score for risk stratification

VK Grolmusz, A Bozsik, J Papp, A Patócs - Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 has
affected all aspects of human society with a special focus on healthcare. Although older …

Integrative genomic analyses identify susceptibility genes underlying COVID-19 hospitalization

GA Pathak, K Singh, TW Miller-Fleming… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Despite rapid progress in characterizing the role of host genetics in SARS-Cov-2 infection,
there is limited understanding of genes and pathways that contribute to COVID-19. Here, we …

Human genetic factors associated with susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 disease severity

C Anastassopoulou, Z Gkizarioti, GP Patrinos… - Human genomics, 2020 - Springer
Background The emergence of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, in
December 2019 marked the synchronization of the world to a peculiar clock that is counting …