The Genetic Basis of COVID-19 Susceptibility

Professor Alessandra Renieri, Director of the Medical Genetics Unit at the University Hospital of Siena, Italy, will describe her team’s GEN-COVID project to collect genomic samples from Covid patients across the whole of Italy in order to try to identify the genetic bases of the high level of clinical variability they showed. Using whole exome sequencing (WES) to study the first data from 130 Covid patients from Siena and other Tuscan institutions, they were able to uncover a number of common susceptibility genes that were linked to a favourable or unfavourable outcome of infection. “We believe that variations in these genes may determine disease progression,” says Prof Renieri. “To our knowledge, this is the first report on the results of WES in Covid-19.” https://www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/news/the-genetic-basis-of-covid-19-susceptibility-335789?utm_campaign=NEWSLETTER_TN_Breaking%20Science%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=89124043&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_mkloohUkITKu4VaSqGzmpqmy8R_rwqasq6_NzicB-WzlSw9LrFKNy89gpu0kBeFN_0ewZt9Zaed3GqJMoqsBM69qudA&utm_content=89124043&utm_source=hs_email