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The Muc5B Promotor Polymorphism Associates With Severe COVID-19

2020-05-16 respiratory medicine Title + abstract only
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BackgroundDiversity in response to exposition to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is common and may be related to the innate immune response. The mucin MUC5B is an important component of the innate immune response and expression levels are associated with the MUC5B promoter polymorphism, rs35705950. The high expressing T-allele of rs35705950 is an accepted risk allele for a non-infectious aging lung disease called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). However, given th...

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