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. 2021 Jan;35(1):e15-e17.
doi: 10.1111/jdv.16956. Epub 2020 Oct 21.

Androgen receptor genetic variant predicts COVID-19 disease severity: a prospective longitudinal study of hospitalized COVID-19 male patients

J McCoy  1 , C G Wambier  2 , S Herrera  3 , S Vaño-Galván  4 , F Gioia  3 , B Comeche  3 , R Ron  3 , S Serrano-Villar  3 , R M Iwasiow  5 , M A Tayeb  5 , F A Cadegiani  6 , N A Mesinkovska  7 , J Shapiro  8 , R Sinclair  9 , A Goren  1
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Androgen receptor genetic variant predicts COVID-19 disease severity: a prospective longitudinal study of hospitalized COVID-19 male patients

J McCoy et al. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2021 Jan.

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    [No authors listed] [No authors listed] J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2021 Jul;35(7):1595. doi: 10.1111/jdv.17247. Epub 2021 Apr 24. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2021. PMID: 34139054 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
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None declared.

John McCoy, Carlos Gustavo Wambier, Sabina Herrera, Sergio Vaño‐Galván, Francesca Gioia, Belen Comeche, Raquel Ron, Flávio Adsuara Cadegiani, Natasha Atanaskova Mesinkovska, Jerry Shapiro, Rodney Sinclair and Andy Goren have nothing to disclose. Sergio Serrano‐Villar reports grants, personal fees and non‐financial support from Gilead Sciences, grants, personal fees and non‐financial support from Merck, Sharp and Dohme, personal fees and non‐financial support from ViiV Healthcare, personal fees from Janssen, outside the submitted work. Rafal M Iwasiow and Michael A Tayeb reports personal fees from DNA Genotek, Inc. outside the submitted work.

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