| Title: | Homozygosity for rs17775810 Minor Allele Associated With Reduced Mortality of COVID-19 in the UK Biobank Cohort |
| Journal: | In Vivo |
| Published: | 23 Feb 2021 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33622890/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21873/invivo.12338 |
| URL: | https://iv.iiarjournals.org/content/invivo/35/2/965.full.pdf |
Publication 5146
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Abstract
BACKGROUND/AIM: Adult outpatients with symptomatic COVID-19 treated with fluvoxamine, compared with placebo, had a lower likelihood of clinical deterioration over 15 days. Fluvoxamine strongly binds to the sigma-1 receptor (S1R) that regulates inflammation by inhibiting the production of cytokines, believed to be responsible for severe COVID-19. We evaluated the S1R locus on chr 9p13.3 in subjects tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. We focused on SNP rs17775810 that has been previously identified by examining loss-of-function mutations in the S1R gene associated with distal hereditary motor neuropathy.PATIENTS AND METHODS: We utilized UK Biobank (UKB) data. Data processing was performed on Minerva, a Linux mainframe with Centos 7.6, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
RESULTS: The effect of rs17775810 genotype on survival was significant (p=0.036, 2 tailed Fisher exact test). The minor allele homozygotes (TT) had the lowest death rate (0%), whereas the non-TT genotypes (i.e. CT and CC) had the highest death rate (16.2%).
CONCLUSION: The rs17775810 analysis corroborates the favorable effect of fluvoxamine on COVID-19 survival.
2 Authors
- Steven Lehrer
- Peter H Rheinstein
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