A Global Effort to Define the Human Genetics of Protective Immunity to SARS-CoV-2 Infection.

Casanova, Jean-Laurent; Su, Helen C; COVID Human Genetic Effort · Cell · 2020

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Abstract

SARS-CoV-2 infection displays immense inter-individual clinical variability, ranging from silent infection to lethal disease. The role of human genetics in determining clinical response to the virus remains unclear. Studies of outliers-individuals remaining uninfected despite viral exposure and healthy young patients with life-threatening disease-present a unique opportunity to reveal human genetic determinants of infection and disease.

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