The role of lung dysfunction and COVID-19 severity in the development of long-term COVID

Study: Genome-wide association study of long COVID.  Image Credit: NiphonSubsri/Shutterstock.com

In a study published in the medRxiv* preprint server, a team of interdisciplinary research groups has identified a genome-wide significant association (GWAS) for long-term coronavirus disease (COVID) at the FOXP4 locus, which has previously been associated with cancer, severe COVID 2019 ( COVID-19) and lung function. Study: Genome-wide association study of long COVID. Image Credit: … Read more