Population

Population name Chamnanphon
Genome GRCh37
Consortium Universities and Hospitals in Thailand
Super population EAS
Population description Samples were obtained from both biobank samples and cases admitted to King Chulalongkorn University and King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand between February 2020 to March 2021. Clinical characterostics and data were assessed and cases were classified into four conditions mild, moderate, severe and critical
Population origin Thailand
Case population size 212
Control population size 36
Comorbidities Diabetes, Dyslipidemia, Chronic kidney disease, Cardiovascular disease, lung and liver disease, cancer, immunocompromised system
Mean / median age 44
Sex 91 males 157 females
Severity Combination
Sample source Nasopharyngeal swab
Method Genomic DNA was analysed with the AxiomTM Human Genotyping SARS-COV-2 Array (Thermo Fisher Scientific)
Bioinformatics Genotype calling from intensity data file was performed with Axiom Analysis Suite (AxAS) version 5.1.1 software using default parameters. Quality control (QC) and PCA was carried out following Ricopili pipeline (Lam et al 2020). SNPs were pruned to minimize LD between SNPs with the criteria of R2 < 0.2, and the number of SNPs in the window for pruning was 200 until there were less than 100,000 SNPs. SAIGE was applied for association analysis in GWAS using a logistic mixed-effects model. LD blocks using LDBlockShow were obtained, and genes residing in the blocks which contained SNPs with statistical significance were acquired using the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) Genome Browser.
Imputation details Genotype imputation was done for chromosomes 1–22 using Michigan Imputation Server and the reference panel used was Genome Asia Pilot (GAsP)
Limitations The limitation of this study was the relatively small sample size