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Environmental variation and genetic diversity contribute to population differences in immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 risk

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Fig. 1: Factors driving variation in immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 risk.

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The Human Evolutionary Genetics Laboratory is supported by the Institut Pasteur, the Collège de France, the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) grants COVID-19-POPCELL (ANR-21-CO14-0003-01), POPCELL-REG (ANR-22-CE12-0030-01) and COVIFERON (ANR-21-RHUS-0008), the EU HORIZON-HLTH-2021-DISEASE-04-07 grant UNDINE (no. 101057100), the French Government’s Investissement d’Avenir program, Laboratoires d’Excellence “Integrative Biology of Emerging Infectious Diseases” (ANR-10- LABX-62-IBEID) and “Milieu Intérieur” (ANR-10-LABX-69-01), the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (Equipe FRM DEQ20180339214), the Fondation Allianz-Institut de France, and the Fondation de France (no. 00106080).

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Rotival, M., Quintana-Murci, L. Environmental variation and genetic diversity contribute to population differences in immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 risk. Genes Immun (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41435-023-00249-0

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