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The Search For An Association Of Hla Alleles And COVID-19 Related Mortality In The Russian Population

Cheranev, V.; Bulusheva, I.; Vechorko, V. I.; Korostin, D.; Rebrikov, D. V.

2020-12-24 genetic and genomic medicine
10.1101/2020.12.22.20248695 medRxiv
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HLA genes play a pivotal role in an immune response via the presentation of pathogen peptides in a complex on the surface of cells of a host organism. Here, we studied the association of class I and class II genes with the severity of COVID-19 infection and HLA allele variants. We performed high-resolution sequencing of class I and class II HLA genes using the sample population of 147 patients who died of COVID-19 and statistically compared our results with the frequencies of the HLA genotypes in a control population of 270 samples. The obtained data demonstrated that 51:05 and 15:18 alleles from locus B* are statistically significantly associated with COVID-19 severity, while C*14:02 allele correlates with the probability of death from COVID-19 for patients without comorbidities.

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