Population

Population name Hubacek
Genome not specified
Consortium Institutes and Universities in the Czech Republic
Super population EUR
Population description 246 symptomatic (without requiring hospitalisation and 164 asymptomatic COVID-19 positive cases during the first wave (app. March 2020 – June 2020) of the disease in the Czech Republic. All cases completely recovered with no adverse events.
Population origin Czech Republic
Case population size 410
Control population size 2559
Comorbidities 7.8% diabetes, 13.3% hypertensive
Mean / median age 44 ± 15
Sex 54.7% female
Severity Mild
Sample source TBD
Method DNA was isolated from EDTA-treated blood. The ACE I/D polymorphism was genotyped and PCR products of ~ 490 bp and ~ 200 bp characterise the I and D alleles, respectively. All D/D subjects were re-genotyped with ACE I-specific oligonucleotides to avoid the misgenotyping of some I/D heterozygotes as D/D homozygotes.
Bioinformatics Statistical analysis was performed using the www.socscistatistics.com tools
Imputation details NA
Limitations The ACE I/D polymorphism effect on COVID-19 outcomes have varied outcomes from different papers (Gomez et al 2020 showed the D/D genotype affecting COVID-19 severity outcomes)