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Men, older adults and smokers are more prone to infection by SARS-CoV-2: study – Medical Xpress

An in-depth analysis of the virus that causes COVID-19 by an international team of scientists—including the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an…

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An in-depth analysis of the virus that causes COVID-19 by an international team of scientistsincluding the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope,suggests that men, older adults and smokers exhibit certain genomic traits in their airways that make it easier for them to contract the disease.
The findings were published this week in Nature Medicine.
Data from single-cell RNA genomic sequencing and the Human Cell Atlasa collection of comprehensive reference maps…

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