Human genetic and immunological determinants of critical COVID-19 pneumonia

Q Zhang, P Bastard, A Cobat, JL Casanova - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 infection is benign in most individuals but, in around 10% of cases, it triggers
hypoxaemic COVID-19 pneumonia, which leads to critical illness in around 3% of cases …

Immune determinants of COVID-19 disease presentation and severity

P Brodin - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection, is mild to moderate in the majority of
previously healthy individuals, but can cause life-threatening disease or persistent …

The human genetic epidemiology of COVID-19

MEK Niemi, MJ Daly, A Ganna - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Human genetics can inform the biology and epidemiology of coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) by pinpointing causal mechanisms that explain why some individuals become …

The COVID-19 pandemic: a global health crisis

CA Pollard, MP Morran… - Physiological …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 was identified as the causative agent for a series of
atypical respiratory diseases in the Hubei Province of Wuhan, China in December of 2019 …

The risk of COVID-19 death is much greater and age dependent with type I IFN autoantibodies

J Manry, P Bastard, A Gervais… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection fatality rate (IFR)
doubles with every 5 y of age from childhood onward. Circulating autoantibodies …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2-related paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome, an epidemiological study, France, 1 March to 17 May 2020

A Belot, D Antona, S Renolleau, E Javouhey… - …, 2020 - eurosurveillance.org
End of April 2020, French clinicians observed an increase in cases presenting with
paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome (PIMS). Nationwide surveillance was set up …

Next generation sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 genomes: challenges, applications and opportunities

M Chiara, AM D'Erchia, C Gissi… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Various next generation sequencing (NGS) based strategies have been successfully used in
the recent past for tracing origins and understanding the evolution of infectious agents …

[HTML][HTML] Coronavirus disease 2019 in patients with inborn errors of immunity: an international study

I Meyts, G Bucciol, I Quinti, B Neven, A Fischer… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background There is uncertainty about the impact of severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in individuals with rare inborn errors of immunity (IEI) …

Autoantibodies against type I IFNs in patients with critical influenza pneumonia

Q Zhang, A Pizzorno, L Miorin, P Bastard… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - rupress.org
Autoantibodies neutralizing type I interferons (IFNs) can underlie critical COVID-19
pneumonia and yellow fever vaccine disease. We report here on 13 patients harboring …

Autoantibodies against type I IFNs in patients with life-threatening COVID-19

P Bastard, LB Rosen, Q Zhang, E Michailidis… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Interindividual clinical variability is vast in humans infected with severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), ranging from silent infection to …