Open AccessCovid-19 Infection and the Host Genetic Predisposition: Does it Exist?
Author(s) -
Anna Vašků
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
physiological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.647
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1802-9973
pISSN - 0862-8408
DOI - 10.33549/physiolres.934504
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , host (biology) , pharmacogenetics , biology , genetic predisposition , virology , genetics , evolutionary biology , medicine , genotype , gene , disease , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Knowledge of genomic interindividual variability could help us to explain why different manifestation of clinical severity of Covid-19 infection as well as modified pharmacogenetic relations can be expected during this pandemic condition.