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. 2021 Mar 23:10:e67860.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.67860.

Rare variants increase the risk of severe COVID-19

Frank L van de Veerdonk  1 , Mihai G Netea  1   2
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Rare variants increase the risk of severe COVID-19

Frank L van de Veerdonk et al. Elife. .

Abstract

Evidence is mounting that rare loss-of-function variants in the TLR7 gene predispose men with no medical history to severe forms of COVID-19.

Keywords: COVID-19; LASSO logistic regression analysis; TLR7; genetics; genomics; human; medicine.

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Fv No competing interests declared

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