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How sick will the coronavirus make you? The answer may be in your genes

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A patient in Italy receives intensive care for COVID-19. Human geneticists are coming together to look for genes that make some people more vulnerable to the disease.

By Jocelyn KaiserScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center.COVID-19, caused by the new pandemic coronavirus, is strangely—and tragically—selective.

Only some infected people get sick, and although most of the critically ill are elderly or have complicating problems such as heart disease, some killed by the disease are previously healthy and even relatively young.

Researchers are now gearing up to scour the patients’ genomes for DNA variations that explain this mystery. The findings could be used to identify those most at risk of serious illness and those

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