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Blood Group Locus Contributes to COVID-19 Severity Risk, GWAS Finds

Jun 18, 2020
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NEW YORK – An international team has tracked down variants in two parts of the genome – one of them containing the ABO blood group locus – that appear to coincide with severe cases of COVID-19 that involve respiratory failure.

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