Integrated analyses of single-cell atlases reveal age, gender, and smoking status associations with cell type-specific expression of mediators of SARS-CoV-2 viral entry and highlights inflammatory programs in putative target cells
Christoph Muus, Malte D. Luecken, Gökçen Eraslan…·Wenjun Yan
Across 1,176,683 airway and lung cells from 22 datasets, ACE2 rises with age, in males and in smokers' multiciliated cells, and is lowest in young children.