An international collaboration uncovers several genetic markers associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 severity. These results, which have been published in Nature, come from one of the largest genome-wide association studies ever performed. The findings could help provide targets for future therapies and illustrate the power of genetic studies in learning more about infectious disease.
IIB Sant Pau researcher, Israel Fernández Cadenas is one of the over 3,500 scientists co-authoring this paper and is the only Spanish researcher in the writing group.
Last update: 27 de July de 2021
