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Genetic mechanisms of critical illness in Covid-19

2020-09-25 intensive care and critical care medicine Title + abstract only
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The subset of patients who develop critical illness in Covid-19 have extensive inflammation affecting the lungs1 and are strikingly different from other patients: immunosuppressive therapy benefits critically-ill patients, but may harm some non-critical cases.2 Since susceptibility to life-threatening infections and immune-mediated diseases are both strongly heritable traits, we reasoned that host genetic variation may identify mechanistic targets for therapeutic development in Covid-19.3 GenOM...

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