Methods
What does GWAS stand for?
genome-wide association study
What is the locus that encodes blood type referred to as?
The ABO locus
Patients of which blood type had the highest risk of respiratory failure?
Type A
What factor of experimental design mentioned empowers a GWAS to produce significant results?
sample size (number of genomes)
What protein is the main receptor SARS-CoV-2 uses for access into human cells?
ACE2
Those with type O blood were hospitalized at about what rate as those of the other types?
2/3
What two criteria did the researchers to categorize as respiratory failure?
C-X-C motif chemokine receptor 6 and the CC-motif chemokine receptor 9 serve what function in combating influenza infection?
T-cell differentiation and recruitement
Which of the two loci addressed has a greater effect size?
The chromosome 3 cluster