IL10RB as a key regulator of COVID-19 host susceptibility and severity

Georgios Voloudakis1, Gabriel Hoffman1, Sanan Venkatesh1

  • 1Department of Psychiatry (G.V., S.V., K.D., J.V., W.Z., S.J., S.A., A.W.C., K.J.B., P.R.), Pamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics (G.V., G.H., S.V., K.D., J.V., W.Z., S.J., A.W.C., J. F.F., K.J.B., P.R.), Friedman Brain Institute (G.V., G.H., S.V., K.D., J.V., W.Z., S.J., S.A., J.F.F., K.J.B., P.R.), Department of Genetics and Genomic Science (G.V., G.H., S.V., K.D., J.V., W.Z., N.D.B., S.J., S.A., E.E.S., A.W.C., J.F.F., K.J.B., P.R.), Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology (G.V., G.H., S.V., K.D., J.V., W.Z., N.D.B., S.J., S.A, E.E.S., A.W.C., J.F.F., K.J.B., P.R.), Nash Family Department of Neuroscience (K.D., S.A, A.W.C., K.J.B.), Department of Microbiology (D.H., B.R.T.), Virus Engineering Center for Therapeutics and Research (D.H., B.R.T.), Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute (D.H., B.R.T.), Mount Sinai Clinical Intelligence Center (N.D.B., A.W.C.), Department of Oncological Sciences (M.M.), Precision Immunology Institute (M.M.) and Tisch Cancer Institute (M.M.) of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; the Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (VISN 2 South) of the James J. Peters VA Medical Center (G.V., S.V., P.R.), Bronx, NY 10468, USA; VA Informatics and Computing Infrastructure (K.M.L., J.B., J.A.L.), VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, UT; Department of Psychiatry (K.D., K.J.B.) of the Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Division of Epidemiology (J.B., J.A.L.), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA; New York Genome Center (A.C.), New York, NY 10013, USA; Biostatistics Shared Resources (L.G.) and Department of Medicine (S.-W.L.), Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97229, USA; VA Boston Healthcare System (K.C.), Boston, MA, USA; Division of Aging (K.C.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Medicine (J.S.L., T.L.A.), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94304, USA; VA Palo Alto Health Care System (J.S.L., T.L.A.), Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA; Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences (S.K.I), and Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences (S.K.I.), School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106; VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System (S.K.I.), Cleveland VA Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 44106; VA Portland Health Care System (S.-W.L.), Portland, OR 97239; Division of Infectious Diseases (R.S.), Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital (R.S.), Madison, WI 53705; and Sema4 (E.E.S.), Stamford, CT 06902, USA.

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