A Neanderthal OAS1 Isoform Protects Against COVID-19 Susceptibility
medRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.13.20212092; this version posted December 24, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license . 1 A Neanderthal OAS1 isoform Protects Against COVID-19 Susceptibility and 2 Severity: Results from Mendelian Randomization and Case-Control Studies 3 4 5 Sirui Zhou1,2,* Guillaume Butler-Laporte1,2,* Tomoko Nakanishi1,3,4,5,* David Morrison1, Jonathan Afilalo1, 6 Marc Afilalo1, Laetitia Laurent1, Maik Pietzner6, Nicola Kerrison6, Kaiqiong Zhao1,2, Elsa Brunet- 7 Ratnasingham7, Danielle Henry1, Nofar Kimchi1, Zaman Afrasiabi1, Nardin Rezk1, Meriem Bouab1, Louis 8 Petitjean,1 Charlotte Guzman1, Xiaoqing Xue1, Chris Tselios,1 Branka Vulesevic1, Olumide Adeleye1, Tala 9 Abdullah1, Noor Almamlouk1, Yiheng Chen1, Michaël Chassé7, Madeleine Durand7, Michael Pollak1, Clare 10 Paterson8, Hugo Zeberg9, Johan Normark10, Robert Frithiof11, Miklós Lipcsey12,13, Michael Hultström11,13, 11 Celia M T Greenwood1,2, Claudia Langenberg6,14, Elin Thysell15, Vincent Mooser3, Vincenzo Forgetta1, 12 Daniel E. Kaufmann7,16, J Brent Richards1,2,3,17 13 14 Affiliations: 15 1) Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, 16 Canada 17 2) Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill 18 University, Montréal, Québec, Canada 19 3) Department of Human Genetics,
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