Shorter androgen receptor polyQ alleles protect against life-threatening COVID-19 disease in males.
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, , Francesca Andretta
The paper identifies shorter androgen receptor polyQ alleles as protective against severe COVID-19 in males using machine learning on whole-exome sequencing data from the GEN-COVID cohort.
EBioMedicine · Feb 26, 2021Peer-reviewedGenetic & Genomic Medicine