Most frequent South Asian haplotypes of ACE2 share identity by descent with East Eurasian populations.

It was shown that the human Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) is the receptor of recent coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, and variation in this gene may affect the susceptibility of a population. Therefore, we have analysed the sequence data of ACE2 among 393 samples worldwide, focusing on South Asia. Ge...

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Main Authors: Anshika Srivastava, Rudra Kumar Pandey, Prajjval Pratap Singh, Pramod Kumar, Avinash Arvind Rasalkar, Rakesh Tamang, George van Driem, Pankaj Shrivastava, Gyaneshwer Chaubey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238255