Dataset related to article "ACE2 and TMPRSS2 variants and expression as candidates to sex and country differences in COVID-19 severity in Italy"
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- 1. Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele, Milan 20090, Italy AND IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Via Manzoni 56, 20089 Rozzano – Milan, Italy
- 2. Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele, Milan 20090, Italy AND IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Via Manzoni 56, 20089 Rozzano – Milan, Italy AND The William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK
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This record contains data related to article "ACE2 and TMPRSS2 variants and expression as candidates to sex and country differences in COVID-19 severity in Italy"
Abstract:
As the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) progresses, prognostic markers for early identification of high-risk individuals are an urgent medical need. Italy has one of the highest numbers of SARS-CoV-2-related deaths and one of the highest mortality rates. Worldwide, a more severe course of COVID-19 is associated with older age, comorbidities, and male sex. Hence, we searched for possible genetic components of COVID-19 severity among Italians by looking at expression levels and variants in ACE2 and TMPRSS2 genes, crucial for viral infection.
Exome and SNP-array data from a large Italian cohort were used to compare the rare-variants burden and polymorphisms frequency with Europeans and East Asians. Moreover, we looked into gene expression databases to check for sex-unbalanced expression.
While we found no significant evidence that ACE2 is associated with disease severity/sex bias, TMPRSS2 levels and genetic variants proved to be possible candidate disease modulators, prompting for rapid experimental validations on large patient cohorts.
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- 10.18632/aging.103415 (DOI)
- 32501810 (ean8)