Abstract:COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has been a major focus of scientific research since late 2019 and early 2020. Due to its enormous societal, economic, and clinical impact worldwide, research efforts aimed, among other questions, to address the effect of host genetics in susceptibility and severity of COVID-19. In this research, we performed next-generation sequencing of coding and regulatory regions of 16 selected human genes, involved in the maintenance of the immune system or encoding the receptors … Show more
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