| Autor: |
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 |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
EBioMedicine, Vol 65, Iss , Pp 103246- (2021) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2352-3964 |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.ebiom.2021.103246 |
| Popis: |
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 SARS-CoV-2 PCR-positive oligo-asymptomatic subjects. Findings: Shorter polyQ alleles (≤22) in the androgen receptor (AR) conferred protection against severe outcome in COVID-19 in the first tested cohort (both males and females) of 638 Italian subjects. The association between long polyQ alleles (≥23) and severe clinical outcome (p = 0.024) was also validated in an independent cohort of Spanish men |
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