Population

Population name Horowitz
Genome GRCh38
Consortium Ancestry, UKB, GHS, PMBB
Super population EUR, AFR, AMR, SAS
Population description Four ancestries (Admixed American, African, European and South Asian) defined as two groups of COVID-19 outcomes: five phenotypes related to disease risk and two phenotypes related to disease severity among COVID-19 cases
Population origin Unspecified
Case population size 11356
Control population size 651047
Comorbidities Comorbidities included hypertension, Cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, chronic kidney disease, asthma, COPD.
Mean / median age Ancestry (52.49), UKB (56.3), GHS (58.2), PMBB (55.65)
Sex >50% Female
Severity Susceptibility
Sample source Nasopharyngeal swab / Whole blood
Method Ancestry: Illumina genotyping array UKB: Applied Biosystems UK BiLEVE Axiom Array and UK Biobank axiome array PMBB: Illumina Global screening array GHS: Illumina OmniExpress Exome or Global Screening Array
Bioinformatics Replicated eight independent associations (r2<0.05) previously reported. Association analyses- genomewide Firth logistic regression test implemented in REGENIE. Results meta-analyzed across studies and ancestries using an inverse variance-weighed fixed-effects meta-analysis.
Imputation details Ancestry: Haplotype Reference Consortium (HRC) reference panel. Haplotypes: Eagle version 2.4.1 Software: Minimac4 version 1.0.1. UKB: HRC panel, UK10K and 1000 Genomes Project phase 3 panels. PMBB: TOPMed reference panel and TOPMed Imputation Server. GHS: TOPMed reference panel and TOPMed Imputation Server.
Limitations Most participants from EUR ancestry