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Common Gene Variant Linked to COVID Mortality

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Sohail Tavazoie (left) and Benjamin Ostendorf (right).

Because three percent of the world population possesses these gene variants, the findings may have implications for hundreds of millions of individuals around the world

It may be the most baffling quirk of COVID: What manifests as minor, flu-like symptoms in some individuals spirals into severe disease, disability, and even death in others. A new paper published in Nature may explain the genetic underpinnings of this dichotomy.

The researchers demonstrated that mice with gene variants previously linked to Alzheimer’s disease were at greater risk of dying when infected with COVID. And a retrospective analysis suggests that patients with those same gene variants were more likely to have died of COVID throughout the pandemic...

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