[HTML][HTML] Whole-genome sequencing reveals host factors underlying critical COVID-19

A Kousathanas, E Pairo-Castineira, K Rawlik… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Critical COVID-19 is caused by immune-mediated inflammatory lung injury. Host genetic
variation influences the development of illness requiring critical care or hospitalization,–after …

[HTML][HTML] Interfering with interferons: A critical mechanism for critical COVID-19 pneumonia

HC Su, H Jing, Y Zhang… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Infection with SARS-CoV-2 results in clinical outcomes ranging from silent or benign
infection in most individuals to critical pneumonia and death in a few. Genetic studies in …

[HTML][HTML] Dissecting human population variation in single-cell responses to SARS-CoV-2

Y Aquino, A Bisiaux, Z Li, M O'Neill, J Mendoza-Revilla… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Humans display substantial interindividual clinical variability after SARS-CoV-2 infection,–,
the genetic and immunological basis of which has begun to be deciphered. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Expanded COVID-19 phenotype definitions reveal distinct patterns of genetic association and protective effects

GHL Roberts, R Partha, B Rhead, SC Knight, DS Park… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Multiple COVID-19 genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified reproducible
genetic associations indicating that there is a genetic component to susceptibility and …

[HTML][HTML] PLSCR1 is a cell-autonomous defence factor against SARS-CoV-2 infection

D Xu, W Jiang, L Wu, RG Gaudet, ES Park, M Su… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding protective immunity to COVID-19 facilitates preparedness for future
pandemics and combats new SARS-CoV-2 variants emerging in the human population …

[HTML][HTML] HLA variation and antigen presentation in COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 infection

DG Augusto, JA Hollenbach - Current opinion in immunology, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Variation in both HLA and SARS-CoV-2 impact antigen presentation to T
cells.•HLA variation influences COVID-19 outcomes and T-cell responses to SARS-CoV …

[HTML][HTML] DOCK2 is involved in the host genetics and biology of severe COVID-19

H Namkoong, R Edahiro, T Takano, H Nishihara… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Identifying the host genetic factors underlying severe COVID-19 is an emerging challenge,,,–
. Here we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) involving 2,393 cases of …

[HTML][HTML] A proteome-scale map of the SARS-CoV-2–human contactome

DK Kim, B Weller, CW Lin, D Sheykhkarimli… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding the mechanisms of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) disease severity
to efficiently design therapies for emerging virus variants remains an urgent challenge of the …

Association between COVID‐19 and telomere length: a bidirectional Mendelian randomization study

D Huang, S Lin, J He, Q Wang… - Journal of medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Several traditional observational studies suggested an association between COVID‐19 and
leukocyte telomere length (LTL), a biomarker for biological age. However, whether there …

HumanNet v3: an improved database of human gene networks for disease research

CY Kim, S Baek, J Cha, S Yang, E Kim… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Network medicine has proven useful for dissecting genetic organization of complex human
diseases. We have previously published HumanNet, an integrated network of human genes …