Shorter androgen receptor polyQ alleles protect against life-threatening COVID-19 disease in European males

Shorter androgen receptor polyQ alleles protect against life-threatening COVID-19 disease in European males

Background: While SARS-CoV-2 similarly infects men and women, COVID-19 outcome is less favorable in men. Variability in COVID-19 severity may be explained by differences in the host genome. Methods: We compared poly-amino acids variability from WES data in severely affected COVID-19 patients versus...

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Main Authors: Margherita Baldassarri, Nicola Picchiotti, Francesca Fava, Chiara Fallerini, Elisa Benetti, Sergio Daga, Floriana Valentino, Gabriella Doddato, Simone Furini, Annarita Giliberti, Rossella Tita, Sara Amitrano, Mirella Bruttini, Susanna Croci, Ilaria Meloni, Anna Maria Pinto, Nicola Iuso, Chiara Gabbi, Francesca Sciarra, Mary Anna Venneri, Marco Gori, Maurizio Sanarico, Francis P. Crawley, Uberto Pagotto, Flaminia Fanelli, Marco Mezzullo, Elena Dominguez-Garrido, Laura Planas-Serra, Agatha Schlüter, Roger Colobran, Pere Soler-Palacin, Pablo Lapunzina, Jair Tenorio, Aurora Pujol, Maria Grazia Castagna, Marco Marcelli, Andrea M. Isidori, Alessandra Renieri, Elisa Frullanti, Francesca Mari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-03-01
Series:EBioMedicine
Subjects:
Androgen receptor gene
Testosterone
COVID-19
LASSO logistic regression
WES
Viral infection and host genome
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396421000396

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