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COVID symptoms seem to never touch certain people — and researchers may have finally figured out why (www.cbsnews.com)

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Here is the study the article references:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06331-x

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Saved you a click:

A common allele of HLA is associated with asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection

We observed that individuals carrying this common allele (approximately 10% in individuals with European ancestry) are more than twice as likely to remain asymptomatic after SARS-CoV-2 infection compared with those who do not, and a notable effect of HLA-B*15:01 homozygosity increasing the chance of remaining asymptomatic by more than eight times.

Together, our results strongly support the hypothesis that HLA-B*15:01 mediates asymptomatic COVID-19 disease through pre-existing T cell immunity due to previous exposure to HKU1-CoV and OC43-CoV.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Thank you, because the journal article is a pretty long read and rather technical, if you're looking at the methodology and everything else. That's a nice succinct summary

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Interesting. I've never had any Covid symptoms and am from Europe originally.