Whole-genome sequencing reveals host factors underlying critical COVID-19

Athanasios Kousathanas, Erola Pairo‐Castineira, Konrad Rawlik, A. Stuckey, Christopher A. Odhams, Susan Walker, Clark D Russell, Tomas Malinauskas, Yang Wu, Jonathan Millar, Xia Shen, Katherine S. Elliott, Fiona Griffiths, Wilna Oosthuyzen, Kirstie Morrice, Seán Keating, Bo Wang, Daniel R. Rhodes, Lucija Klarić, Marie Zechner, Nick Parkinson, Afshan Siddiq, Peter Goddard, Sally Donovan, David M. Maslove, Alistair Nichol, Malcolm G. Semple, Tala Zainy, F. Maleady-Crowe, Linda Todd, Shahla Salehi, Julian C. Knight, Greg Elgar, G. C. Chan, Prabhu Arumugam, Christine Patch, Augusto Rendon, David Bentley, Clare Kingsley, Jack A. Kosmicki, Julie Horowitz, Aris Baras, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Manuel A. R. Ferreira, Anne E. Justice, Tooraj Mirshahi, Matthew T. Oetjens, Daniel J. Rader, Marylyn D. Ritchie, Anurag Verma, Tom Fowler, Manu Shankar‐Hari, Charlotte Summers, Charles Hinds, Peter Horby, Lowell Ling, Daniel F. McAuley, Hugh Montgomery, Peter Openshaw, Paul Elliott, Timothy Walsh, Albert Tenesa, GenOMICC investigators, GenOMICC co-investigators, J. Kenneth Baillie, Colin B. Begg, Sara Clohisey, Charles Hinds, Peter Horby, Julian Knight, Lowell Ling, David M. Maslove, Danny McAuley, Johnny Millar, Hugh Montgomery, Alistair Nichol, Peter J. M. Openshaw, Alexandre C. Pereira, Chris P. Ponting, Kathy Rowan, Malcolm G. Semple, Manu Shankar‐Hari, Charlotte Summers, Timothy Walsh, Latha Aravindan, Ruth Armstrong, Heather Biggs, Ceilia Boz, Adam Brown, Richard Clark, Audrey Coutts, J. Terrence Coyle, Louise Cullum, Sukamal Das, Nicky Day, Lorna Donnelly, Esther Duncan, Angie Fawkes, Paul Finernan, Max Head Fourman

Nature · 2022

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Summary

Critical COVID-19 is caused by immune-mediated inflammatory lung injury. Host genetic variation influences the development of illness requiring critical care<sup>1</sup> or hospitalization<sup>2-4</sup> after infection with SARS-CoV-2. The GenOMICC (Genetics of Mortality in Critical Care) study enables the comparison of genomes from individuals who are critically ill with those of population controls to find underlying disease mechanisms. Here we use whole-genome sequencing in 7,491 critically ill individuals compared with 48,400 controls to discover and replicate 23 independent variants that significantly predispose to critical COVID-19. We identify 16 new independent associations, including variants within genes that are involved in interferon signalling (IL10RB and PLSCR1), leucocyte di

Source type: Peer-reviewed study
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04576-6
Catalogue ID: BFmoakvpzf-kw0l6e

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