Proteome-wide Mendelian randomization identifies causal links between blood proteins and severe COVID-19.

In November 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic death toll surpassed five million individuals. We applied Mendelian randomization including >3,000 blood proteins as exposures to identify potential biomarkers that may indicate risk for hospitalization or need for respiratory support or death due to COVID-...

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Main Authors: Alish B Palmos, Vincent Millischer, David K Menon, Timothy R Nicholson, Leonie S Taams, Benedict Michael, Geraint Sunderland, Michael J Griffiths, COVID Clinical Neuroscience Study Consortium, Christopher Hübel, Gerome Breen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-03-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1010042&type=printable