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Assessing the Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Lineages and Mutations on Patient Survival
Carlos Loucera1,2, Javier Perez-Florido1,2, Carlos S Casimiro-Soriguer1,2
1Bioinformatics Area, Andalusian Public Foundation Progress and Health-FPS, 41013 Sevilla, Spain.
Objectives:
More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 still remains a global public health problem. Successive waves of infection have produced new SARS-CoV-2 variants with new mutations for which the impact on COVID-19 severity and patient survival is uncertain.
Methods:
A total of 764 SARS-CoV-2 genomes, sequenced from COVID-19 patients, hospitalized from 19th February 2020 to 30 April 2021, along with their clinical data, were used for survival analysis.
Results:
A significant association of B.1.1.7, the alpha lineage, with patient mortality (log hazard ratio (LHR) = 0.51, C.I. = [0.14,0.88]) was found upon adjustment by all the covariates known to affect COVID-19 prognosis. Moreover, survival analysis of mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 genome revealed 27 of them were significantly associated with higher mortality of patients. Most of these mutations were located in the genes coding for the S, ORF8, and N proteins.
Conclusions:
This study illustrates how a combination of genomic and clinical data can provide solid evidence for the impact of viral lineage on patient survival.
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