MUC22, HLA-A, and HLA-DOB variants and COVID-19 in resilient super-agers from Brazil - Concepedia

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MUC22, HLA-A, and HLA-DOB variants and COVID-19 in resilient super-agers from Brazil

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2022

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Erick C. Castelli, Mateus Vidigal de Castro, Michel Satya Naslavsky, Marília O. Scliar, Nayane dos Santos Brito Silva, Raphaela Neto Pereira, Viviane A. O. Ciriaco, Camila Ferreira Bannwart Castro, Celso Teixeira Mendes‐Junior, Etiele de S. Silveira,

Frontiers in Immunology

Abstract

Since the pro-inflammatory basal state in the elderly may enhance the susceptibility to severe Covid-19, we hypothesized that <i>MUC22</i> might play an important protective role against severe Covid-19, by reducing overactive immune responses in the senior population.

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