An international effort has revealed that an individual’s genetic inheritance can indeed influence their risk of infection and the severity of disease. Co-authors reported in Nature that more than a dozen parts of the human genome were linked with either enhanced susceptibility to infection with SARS-CoV-2 or severe Covid-19. Read the Full Article.
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