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Deconvoluting complex correlates of COVID-19 severity with a multi-omic pandemic tracking strategy
Document Type
article
Source
Nature Communications. 13(1)
Subject
Biological Sciences
Genetics
Pneumonia & Influenza
Lung
Prevention
Human Genome
Clinical Research
Infectious Diseases
Infection
Good Health and Well Being
COVID-19
Genome
Viral
Genome-Wide Association Study
Humans
Pandemics
SARS-CoV-2
Language
Abstract
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has differentially impacted populations across race and ethnicity. A multi-omic approach represents a powerful tool to examine risk across multi-ancestry genomes. We leverage a pandemic tracking strategy in which we sequence viral and host genomes and transcriptomes from nasopharyngeal swabs of 1049 individuals (736 SARS-CoV-2 positive and 313 SARS-CoV-2 negative) and integrate them with digital phenotypes from electronic health records from a diverse catchment area in Northern California. Genome-wide association disaggregated by admixture mapping reveals novel COVID-19-severity-associated regions containing previously reported markers of neurologic, pulmonary and viral disease susceptibility. Phylodynamic tracking of consensus viral genomes reveals no association with disease severity or inferred ancestry. Summary data from multiomic investigation reveals metagenomic and HLA associations with severe COVID-19. The wealth of data available from residual nasopharyngeal swabs in combination with clinical data abstracted automatically at scale highlights a powerful strategy for pandemic tracking, and reveals distinct epidemiologic, genetic, and biological associations for those at the highest risk.