Communications Biology (Aug 2021)

Trans-ethnic genome-wide association study of severe COVID-19

  • Peng Wu,
  • Lin Ding,
  • Xiaodong Li,
  • Siyang Liu,
  • Fanjun Cheng,
  • Qing He,
  • Mingzhong Xiao,
  • Ping Wu,
  • Hongyan Hou,
  • Minghui Jiang,
  • Pinpin Long,
  • Hao Wang,
  • Linlin Liu,
  • Minghan Qu,
  • Xian Shi,
  • Qin Jiang,
  • Tingting Mo,
  • Wencheng Ding,
  • Yu Fu,
  • Shi Han,
  • Xixiang Huo,
  • Yingchun Zeng,
  • Yana Zhou,
  • Qing Zhang,
  • Jia Ke,
  • Xi Xu,
  • Wei Ni,
  • Zuoyu Shao,
  • Jingzhi Wang,
  • Panhong Liu,
  • Zilong Li,
  • Yan Jin,
  • Fang Zheng,
  • Fang Wang,
  • Lei Liu,
  • Wending Li,
  • Kang Liu,
  • Rong Peng,
  • Xuedan Xu,
  • Yuhui Lin,
  • Hui Gao,
  • Limei Shi,
  • Ziyue Geng,
  • Xuanwen Mu,
  • Yu Yan,
  • Kai Wang,
  • Degang Wu,
  • Xingjie Hao,
  • Shanshan Cheng,
  • Gaokun Qiu,
  • Huan Guo,
  • Kezhen Li,
  • Gang Chen,
  • Ziyong Sun,
  • Xihong Lin,
  • Xin Jin,
  • Feng Wang,
  • Chaoyang Sun,
  • Chaolong Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02549-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Chaolong Wang and colleagues report a large genome-wide association study for COVID-19 severity in Chinese individuals. By meta-analysis with European data, they identify 3 loci associated with severe disease that suggest key roles for the adaptive immune system and the ABO blood group system in development of severe COVID-19.