TY  - JOUR
AU  - Zecević, Marko
AU  - Kotur, Nikola
AU  - Ristivojević, Bojan
AU  - Gašić, Vladimir
AU  - Skodrić-Trifunović, Vesna
AU  - Stjepanović, Mihailo
AU  - Stevanović, Goran
AU  - Lavadinović, Lidija
AU  - Zukić, Branka
AU  - Pavlović, Sonja
AU  - Stanković, Biljana
PY  - 2022
UR  - https://imagine.imgge.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1515
AB  - Host genetics, an important contributor to the COVID-19 clinical susceptibility and severity, currently is the focus of multiple genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in populations affected by the pandemic. This is the first study from Serbia that performed a GWAS of COVID-19 outcomes to identify genetic risk markers of disease severity. A group of 128 hospitalized COVID-19 patients from the Serbian population was enrolled in the study. We conducted a GWAS comparing (1) patients with pneumonia (n = 80) against patients without pneumonia (n = 48), and (2) severe (n = 34) against mild disease (n = 48) patients, using a genotyping array followed by imputation of missing genotypes. We have detected a significant signal associated with COVID-19 related pneumonia at locus 13q21.33, with a peak residing upstream of the gene KLHL1 (p = 1.91 x 10(-8)). Our study also replicated a previously reported COVID-19 risk locus at 3p21.31, identifying lead variants in SACM1L and LZTFL1 genes suggestively associated with pneumonia (p = 7.54 x 10(-6)) and severe COVID-19 (p = 6.88 x 10(-7)), respectively. Suggestive association with COVID-19 pneumonia has also been observed at chromosomes 5p15.33 (IRX, NDUFS6, MRPL36, p = 2.81 x 10(-6)), 5q11.2 (ESM1, p = 6.59 x 10(-6)), and 9p23 (TYRP1, LURAP1L, p = 8.69 x 10(-6)). The genes located in or near the risk loci are expressed in neural or lung tissues, and have been previously associated with respiratory diseases such as asthma and COVID-19 or reported as differentially expressed in COVID-19 gene expression profiling studies. Our results revealed novel risk loci for pneumonia and severe COVID-19 disease which could contribute to a better understanding of the COVID-19 host genetics in different populations.
PB  - Frontiers Media Sa, Lausanne
T2  - Frontiers in Genetics
T1  - Genome-Wide Association Study of COVID-19 Outcomes Reveals Novel Host Genetic Risk Loci in the Serbian Population
VL  - 13
DO  - 10.3389/fgene.2022.911010
ER  - 

@article{
author = "Zecević, Marko and Kotur, Nikola and Ristivojević, Bojan and Gašić, Vladimir and Skodrić-Trifunović, Vesna and Stjepanović, Mihailo and Stevanović, Goran and Lavadinović, Lidija and Zukić, Branka and Pavlović, Sonja and Stanković, Biljana",
year = "2022",
abstract = "Host genetics, an important contributor to the COVID-19 clinical susceptibility and severity, currently is the focus of multiple genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in populations affected by the pandemic. This is the first study from Serbia that performed a GWAS of COVID-19 outcomes to identify genetic risk markers of disease severity. A group of 128 hospitalized COVID-19 patients from the Serbian population was enrolled in the study. We conducted a GWAS comparing (1) patients with pneumonia (n = 80) against patients without pneumonia (n = 48), and (2) severe (n = 34) against mild disease (n = 48) patients, using a genotyping array followed by imputation of missing genotypes. We have detected a significant signal associated with COVID-19 related pneumonia at locus 13q21.33, with a peak residing upstream of the gene KLHL1 (p = 1.91 x 10(-8)). Our study also replicated a previously reported COVID-19 risk locus at 3p21.31, identifying lead variants in SACM1L and LZTFL1 genes suggestively associated with pneumonia (p = 7.54 x 10(-6)) and severe COVID-19 (p = 6.88 x 10(-7)), respectively. Suggestive association with COVID-19 pneumonia has also been observed at chromosomes 5p15.33 (IRX, NDUFS6, MRPL36, p = 2.81 x 10(-6)), 5q11.2 (ESM1, p = 6.59 x 10(-6)), and 9p23 (TYRP1, LURAP1L, p = 8.69 x 10(-6)). The genes located in or near the risk loci are expressed in neural or lung tissues, and have been previously associated with respiratory diseases such as asthma and COVID-19 or reported as differentially expressed in COVID-19 gene expression profiling studies. Our results revealed novel risk loci for pneumonia and severe COVID-19 disease which could contribute to a better understanding of the COVID-19 host genetics in different populations.",
publisher = "Frontiers Media Sa, Lausanne",
journal = "Frontiers in Genetics",
title = "Genome-Wide Association Study of COVID-19 Outcomes Reveals Novel Host Genetic Risk Loci in the Serbian Population",
volume = "13",
doi = "10.3389/fgene.2022.911010"
}

Zecević, M., Kotur, N., Ristivojević, B., Gašić, V., Skodrić-Trifunović, V., Stjepanović, M., Stevanović, G., Lavadinović, L., Zukić, B., Pavlović, S.,& Stanković, B.. (2022). Genome-Wide Association Study of COVID-19 Outcomes Reveals Novel Host Genetic Risk Loci in the Serbian Population. in Frontiers in Genetics
Frontiers Media Sa, Lausanne., 13.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.911010

Zecević M, Kotur N, Ristivojević B, Gašić V, Skodrić-Trifunović V, Stjepanović M, Stevanović G, Lavadinović L, Zukić B, Pavlović S, Stanković B. Genome-Wide Association Study of COVID-19 Outcomes Reveals Novel Host Genetic Risk Loci in the Serbian Population. in Frontiers in Genetics. 2022;13.
doi:10.3389/fgene.2022.911010 .

Zecević, Marko, Kotur, Nikola, Ristivojević, Bojan, Gašić, Vladimir, Skodrić-Trifunović, Vesna, Stjepanović, Mihailo, Stevanović, Goran, Lavadinović, Lidija, Zukić, Branka, Pavlović, Sonja, Stanković, Biljana, "Genome-Wide Association Study of COVID-19 Outcomes Reveals Novel Host Genetic Risk Loci in the Serbian Population" in Frontiers in Genetics, 13 (2022),
https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.911010 . .