Genome-wide association study of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the United Arab Emirates

The heterogeneity in symptomatology and phenotypic profile attributable to COVID-19 is widely unknown. The objective of this manuscript is to conduct a trans-ancestry genome wide association study (GWAS) meta-analysis of COVID-19 severity to improve the understanding of potentially causal targets for SARS-CoV-2.This cross-sectional study recruited 646 participants in the UAE that were divided into two phenotypic groups based on the severity of...