RESUMEN
A recent report found that rare predicted loss-of-function (pLOF) variants across 13 candidate genes in TLR3- and IRF7-dependent type I IFN pathways explain up to 3.5% of severe COVID-19 cases. We performed whole-exome or whole-genome sequencing of 1,864 COVID-19 cases (713 with severe and 1,151 with mild disease) and 15,033 ancestry-matched population controls across 4 independent COVID-19 biobanks. We tested whether rare pLOF variants in these 13 genes were associated with severe COVID-19. We identified only 1 rare pLOF mutation across these genes among 713 cases with severe COVID-19 and observed no enrichment of pLOFs in severe cases compared to population controls or mild COVID-19 cases. We found no evidence of association of rare LOF variants in the 13 candidate genes with severe COVID-19 outcomes.
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COVID-19/genética , COVID-19/inmunología , Interferón Tipo I/genética , Interferón Tipo I/inmunología , Mutación con Pérdida de Función , SARS-CoV-2 , Adolescente , Adulto , Anciano , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Estudios de Casos y Controles , Niño , Preescolar , Estudios de Cohortes , Femenino , Estudios de Asociación Genética , Predisposición Genética a la Enfermedad , Humanos , Lactante , Recién Nacido , Factor 7 Regulador del Interferón/genética , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Índice de Severidad de la Enfermedad , Receptor Toll-Like 3/genética , Secuenciación del Exoma , Secuenciación Completa del Genoma , Adulto JovenRESUMEN
A recent report found that rare predicted loss-of-function (pLOF) variants across 13 candidate genes in TLR3- and IRF7-dependent type I IFN pathways explain up to 3.5% of severe COVID-19 cases. We performed whole-exome or whole-genome sequencing of 1,934 COVID-19 cases (713 with severe and 1,221 with mild disease) and 15,251 ancestry-matched population controls across four independent COVID-19 biobanks. We then tested if rare pLOF variants in these 13 genes were associated with severe COVID-19. We identified only one rare pLOF mutation across these genes amongst 713 cases with severe COVID-19 and observed no enrichment of pLOFs in severe cases compared to population controls or mild COVID-19 cases. We find no evidence of association of rare loss-of-function variants in the proposed 13 candidate genes with severe COVID-19 outcomes.
