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 |