Team sport, power, and combat athletes are at high genetic risk for coronavirus disease-2019 severity

• Ildus I. Ahmetov,
• Oleg V. Borisov,
• Ekaterina A. Semenova,
• Oleg N. Andryushchenko,
• Liliya B. Andryushchenko,
• Edward V. Generozov,
• Craig Pickering

Affiliations

Ildus I. Ahmetov

Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 5AF, UK; Sports Genetics Laboratory, St Petersburg Research Institute of Physical Culture, St Petersburg 191040, Russia; Department of Physical Education, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Moscow 115093, Russia; Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Central Research Laboratory, Kazan State Medical University, Kazan 420012, Russia; Corresponding author.

Oleg V. Borisov

Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Federal Research and Clinical Center of Physical-Chemical Medicine of Federal Medical Biological Agency, Moscow 119435, Russia; Institute for Genomic Statistics and Bioinformatics, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn 53127, Germany

Ekaterina A. Semenova

Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Federal Research and Clinical Center of Physical-Chemical Medicine of Federal Medical Biological Agency, Moscow 119435, Russia

Oleg N. Andryushchenko

Department of Physical Education, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow 125167, Russia

Liliya B. Andryushchenko

Department of Physical Education, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Moscow 115093, Russia

Edward V. Generozov

Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Federal Research and Clinical Center of Physical-Chemical Medicine of Federal Medical Biological Agency, Moscow 119435, Russia

Craig Pickering

School of Sport and Wellbeing, Institute of Coaching and Performance, University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE, UK