Better safe than sorry-Whole-genome sequencing indicates that missense variants are significant in susceptibility to COVID-19.
PLoS One
; 18(1): e0279356, 2023.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2214784
ABSTRACT
Undoubtedly, genetic factors play an important role in susceptibility and resistance to COVID-19. In this study, we conducted the GWAS analysis. Out of 15,489,173 SNPs, we identified 18,191 significant SNPs for severe and 11,799 SNPs for resistant phenotype, showing that a great number of loci were significant in different COVID-19 representations. The majority of variants were synonymous (60.56% for severe, 58.46% for resistant phenotype) or located in introns (55.77% for severe, 59.83% for resistant phenotype). We identified the most significant SNPs for a severe outcome (in AJAP1 intron) and for COVID resistance (in FIG4 intron). We found no missense variants with a potential causal function on resistance to COVID-19; however, two missense variants were determined as significant a severe phenotype (in PM20D1 and LRP4 exons). None of the aforementioned SNPs and missense variants found in this study have been previously associated with COVID-19.
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Genome-Wide Association Study
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Topics:
Variants
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
PLoS One
Journal subject:
Science
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Medicine
Year:
2023
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Journal.pone.0279356
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