African Genetic Representation in the Context of SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19 Severity

Desiree C Petersen; Chrystal Steyl; Denise Scholtz; Bienyameen Baker; Ibtisam Abdullah; Caitlin Uren; Marlo Möller; and for The COVID-19 Host Genetics Project

doi:10.3389/fgene.2022.909117

African Genetic Representation in the Context of SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19 Severity

Front Genet. 2022 May 10:13:909117. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2022.909117. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Desiree C Petersen¹, Chrystal Steyl¹, Denise Scholtz¹, Bienyameen Baker¹, Ibtisam Abdullah², Caitlin Uren^{1

3}, Marlo Möller^{1

3}; and for The COVID-19 Host Genetics Project

Affiliations

¹ DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, South African Medical Research Council Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
² Division of Haematological Pathology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University and NHLS Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.
³ Centre for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

No abstract available

Keywords: African genomics; COVID-19 genetic associations; COVID-19 severity; SARS-CoV-2 infection variability; genetic susceptibility; limited African data.