HLA COVID-19
A centralized resource designed to support and combine efforts underway to study the association between HLA and COVID-19 infection and symptoms.
Background
- While little is currently known about the impact of host genetic factors on the risk for infection, morbidity and mortality in COVID-19, the epidemiology to-date reveals wide variation in disease course among confirmed cases of infection that does not appear to be fully explained by known comorbidities and other risk factors. The major genetic contribution of the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region to disease risk has been recognized for nearly fifty years, with hundreds of associations observed in autoimmunity, infectious disease, cancer, and major drug-hypersensitivities. Because of its pivotal role in the immune response to pathogens, we expect that HLA variation will also play a role in COVID-19.
- Vast amounts of genetic data for COVID-19 risk will be emerging in the coming months, both HLA-specific and genome-wide. Because the complexity and extreme polymorphism of the HLA region make consolidation, equivalency, analysis, and biological interpretation of HLA data challenging, it is our view that a centralized resource designed to aggregate these data from disparate sources and platforms and provide well-curated bioinformatics and analytical tools will serve to accelerate discovery.
COVID-19 HLA and Immunogenetics Consortium
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JILL HOLLENBACH
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, UCSF, San Francisco, USA
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STEVE MACK
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UCSF, Oakland, USA
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MARTIN MAIERS
Vice President for Innovation, NMDP, Minneapolis, USA
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DANILLO G. AUGUSTO
Assistant Researcher, Department of Neurology, UCSF, San Francisco, USA
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PAUL NORMAN
Associate Professor, Division of Biomedical Information and Personalized Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, USA
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ALEXANDER SCHMIDT
Chief Executive, DKMS, Tubingen, Germany
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JURGEN SAUTER
Head of Scienctific Project Department, DKMS, Tubingen, Germany
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DIANNE DE SANTIS
Senior Scientist in Charge, Pathwest Laboratory, Perth, Australia
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NARINDER MEHRA
Head of Transplant Immunology & Immunogenetics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
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JOHANNES SCHETELIG
Head DKMS Clinical Trials Unit, Dresden, Germany
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KATSUSHI TOKUNGAWA
Director, Genome Medical Science Project-Toyama, Director, National Center Biobank Network (NCBN), National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM), Tokyo, Japan
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SEBASTIAAN HEIDT
Chair of 18th International HLA & Immunogenetics Workshop, Leiden, Netherlands
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ERIC SPIERINGS
Chair of 18th International HLA & Immunogenetics Workshop, Utrecht, Netherlands
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AMY HAHN
Editor in Chief, Human Immunology, Albany, USA
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FRANS CLAAS
Director, Eurotransplant Reference Laboratory, Leiden, Netherlands
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RONALD BONTROP
Director, Editor in Chief, Immunogenetics, Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Utrecht, Netherlands
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RAJALINGHAM RAJA
Director, Immunogenetics and Transplantation Laboratory, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
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EFFIE PETERSDORF
Madeline Dabney Adams Endowed Chair in AML Research, Fred Hutch, Seattle, USA
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ATTILA BÉRCES
Founder and Chairman, Omixon, Hungary
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DAVID SAYER
Vice President, Global Transplant Laboratory Solutions,Vice President, Transplant Laboratory Solutions, CareDx
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PATRICIA MARTINEZ
Head of Immunology, PathWest FSH Network
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PETER PARHAM
Professor, Structural Biology and Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine
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LISBETH A. GUETHLEIN
Department of Structural Biology and of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine
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MARCELO A. FERNÁNDEZ-VIÑA
Director, Histocompatibility, Immunogenetics, and Disease Profiling Laboratory, Professor, Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine
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ANNETTE M. JACKSON
Associate Professor, Surgery & Immunology Director, Clinical Transplantation Immunology Laboratory, Duke University School of Medicine
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ZACHARY ANTOVICH
General Manager, Transplant & Transfusion Diagnostics, Thermo Fisher Scientific
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WILLIAM H. HILDEBRAND
President-elect of ASHI, Professor, University of Oklahoma, Director, HLA Typing Laboratory
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REID THOMPSON
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Computational Biology Program, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA, Staff Physician, VA Portland Healthcare System
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ALICIA SANCHEZ-MAZAS
Full professor, Department of Genetics and Evolution - Anthropology Unit, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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SOPHIE LIMOU
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CLARA GORODESKY
Fundación Comparte Vida, A.C., Director of the Laboratory of Immunology & Immunogenetics
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STEVEN GE MARSH
Director of Bioinformatics, Anthony Nolan Research Institute & Professor of Immunogenetics, University College London
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KELLEY MK HITCHMAN
Assistant Professor, UT Health San Antonio Long School of Medicine, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, HLA Laboratory Director, University Health System and University Hospital, San Antonio, TX
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MARIA LUIZA PETZL-ERLER
Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Brasil
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GIOVANNA DEL POZZO
Senior CNR Researcher, Institute of Genetics and Biophysics "Adriano Buzzati Traverso", CNR
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MANEESH MISRA
Assistant Professor Clinical Pathology, Assistant Director Transplant Immunology and Immunogenetics Laboratory, Department of Pathology, The University of Chicago Medicine
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LIVIA TRAN
Department of Pediatrics, UCSF, Oakland, USA
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DELORDSON KALLON
Clinical Transplantation Laboratory, Barts Health NHS Trust
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MICHAEL GAUTREAUX
Wake Forest School of Medicine
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MICHAEL HEUER
UC Berkeley
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SOPHIE LIMOU
Nantes University
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YUNG-TSI BOLON
Director, Bioinformatics Research at Be The Match, National Marrow Donor Program
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PIERRE-ANTOINE GOURRAUD
Nantes University
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ALEX JOHNSON
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DEREK MIDDLETON
Director of Operations, Allele Frequencies Net Database
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GORDON HILL
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JONATHON DOWNING
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NICOLAS VINCE
Nantes University
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RICHARD M. SINGLE
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Vermont
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DIOGO MEYER
Universidade de São Paulo
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JOANNIS MYTILINEOS
President, European Federation for Immunogenetics
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MAISA LOKKI
Haartman Institute
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MARIA BETTINOTTI
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MARY CARINGTON
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MEDHAT ASKAR
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RHONDA HOLDSWORTH
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SALLY ELFISHAWI
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SIAMAK BAHRAM
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MARCOS LOÓPEZ CASILLAS
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CORNELIEKE RÖELL
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BEN MATERN
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CHIA-JUNG 'JOHN' CHANG
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JOSE NUNES
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KAZU OSOEGAWA
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ERIC WEIMER
UNC Chapel Hill
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JULIANA LISZIEWICZ
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ANNE-MARGARET LITTLE
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WALEED ABDELMAGUID
Visiting Scholar, Opthalmology Department, Wexner Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, The Ohio State University
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STEPHANIE GRAS
Assistant Professor, Monash University
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LORI J WEST
University of Alberta
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ERICK CASTELLI
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VITOR AGUIAR
University of São Paulo
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KELLY NUNES
Universidade de São Paulo
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RAJESH SIVAPRAKASAM
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FRANK CHRISTIANSEN
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RAM MOHAN JAISWAL
Mahatma Gandhi Medical College,Jaipur,India
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PAWINEE KUPATAWINTU
National Blood Centre and Thai National Stem Cell Donor Registry, Thai Red Cross Society
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STEPHEN LESLIE
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SANDEEP K. DHANDA
Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
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CHRISTINE HEYLEN
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UMA KANGA
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ANNE HALPIN
University of Alberta
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BRIAN TAIT
Haplomic Technologies
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ASAAD TAGELDEIN IDRIS ABDELHALIM
Clinical Immunology council, Sudan Medical Specialization Board
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TED KANDELL
Open Genomes Foundation
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COREY WATSON
University of Louisville School of Medicine
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ESTEBAN ARRIETA-BOLANOS
UK-Essen
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CHANG-YI LIN
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CHARLES KHOR
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NATTIYA HIRANKARN
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JANETTE KWOK
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DAVE ROELEN
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CHRIS HAMMER
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WIESŁAW BABIK
Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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WENZHONG XIAO
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TOBIAS LENZ
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Ploen, Germany
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RICHARD CASEY
The Sequencing Center
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DAVID LANGTON
ExplantLab and National Health Service
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BRYAN HOGLUND
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NANCY GROSSMAN
Open Genomes
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KATRINA EATON
UCSF
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MÉLENIE DIEUDÉ
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SEAN MADDEN
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ABHINAV NELLORE
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ANAJANE SMITH
North Texas Genome Center, University of Texas Arlington
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JANELLE NOBLE
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LOREN GRAGERT
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ALAN SANFILIPPO
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JOSEPH DUNHAM
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NATHAN PEARSON
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PAT MARTIN
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MARIA-GRACIELA HOLLM-DELGADO
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ANA JIMENA PAVLOVITCH-BEDZYK
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HU HUANG
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SEONG-KEUN YOO
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ALINA SIRUNYAN
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NATTIYA HIRANKARN
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CLAUDIA RITA
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LIYA JU
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SHANTANU KAUSHIKKAR
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POOJA MEHTA
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DANIEL O'CONNOR
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MÁTÉ MANCZINGER
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HALIMA ALNAQBI
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HABIBA ALSAFAR
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MATHEW CUSICK
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CLARA GORODESKY
Fundación Comparte Vida A.C
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PATRICK TREPANIER
Hema-quebec and Université Laval
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JEANE ELIETE LAGUILA VISENTAINER
Maringá State University
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XIANG-JIAO YANG
McGill University
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KAREN SHERWOOD
UBC/VCH
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MARGARETH AFONSO TORRES
Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Brazil
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LIZBETH PENA-ZUNIGA, PH.D
Universidad Tecnologica Equinoccial UTE, Quito, Ecuador
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MIKHAIL FEDOROV, MD
First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg
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HEIDI MCGOWAN
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ROBERTO CALZADILLA
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DR. PAWAN KUMAR RAGHAV
UCSF
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TERRY HARVILLE
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
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TATIANA SUSLOVA
Chelyabinsk State University
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SCOTT BURKHOLZ
Flow Pharma
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OKSANA
Yanko
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HISHAM ATAN EDINUR
Universiti Sains Malaysia
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ARSENI ZYGANKOW
Vitebsk State Medical University