Publication: SARS-CoV-2 genetic variations associated with COVID-19 pathogenicity
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2021-01-01
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20575858
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Mahidol University
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Microbial Genomics. Vol.7, No.12 (2021)
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Pakorn Aiewsakun, Patrawee Nilplub, Patompon Wongtrakoongate, Suradej Hongeng, Arunee Thitithanyanont SARS-CoV-2 genetic variations associated with COVID-19 pathogenicity. Microbial Genomics. Vol.7, No.12 (2021). doi:10.1099/mgen.0.000734 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/76319
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SARS-CoV-2 genetic variations associated with COVID-19 pathogenicity
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In this study, we performed genome-wide association analyses on SARS-CoV-2 genomes to identify genetic mutations associated with pre-symptomatic/asymptomatic COVID-19 cases. Various potential covariates and confounding factors of COVID-19 severity, including patient age, gender and country, as well as virus phylogenetic relatedness were adjusted for. In total, 3021 full-length genomes of SARS-CoV-2 generated from original clinical samples and whose patient status could be determined conclusively as either ‘pre-symptomatic/asymptomatic’ or ‘symptomatic’ were retrieved from the GISAID database. We found that the mutation 11 083G>T, located in the coding region of non-structural protein 6, is significantly associated with asympto-matic COVID-19. Patient age is positively correlated with symptomatic infection, while gender is not significantly correlated with the development of the disease. We also found that the effects of the mutation, patient age and gender do not vary significantly among countries, although each country appears to have varying baseline chances of COVID-19 symptom development.