Yosuke Tanigawa

Yosuke Tanigawa

Postdoctral Associate, investigating disease heterogeneity

Human genetic resources for COVID-19 analysis

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As a part of the COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative, we perform the following set of analyses to better understand the genetic basis of COVID-19 susceptibility and severity.

COVID-19 repo image

We performed the following sets of analysis and provided the results as a resource.

  • HLA frequency in UK Biobank
  • The ABO blood type frequency in UK Biobank
  • Polygenic prediction of biomarkers and blood measurements
  • PRS_PheWAS: Application of blood measurement PRSs for disease risk prediction

HLA frequency map

Please see our preprint and the GitHub repository for more information.