Derya Beyza Sayin Kocakap, Sedat Kaygusuz, Emel Aksoy, Ömer Şahin, Ayşe Baççioğlu, Aydanur Ekici, Ayşe Füsun Kalpaklioğlu, Mehmet Savaş Ekici, Serdar Gül, Birgül Kaçmaz, Ergin Ayaşlioğlu Açikgöz, Sibel Alyilmaz Bekmez, Barry T Rouse, Ahmet Kürşat Azkur
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected people worldwide with varying clinical presentations ranging from mild to severe or fatal, and studies have found that age, gender, and some comorbidities can influence the severity of the disease. It would be valuable to have genetic markers that might help predict the likely outcome of infection. For this objective, genes encoding VEGFR-2 (rs1870377), CCR5Δ32 (rs333), and TLR3 (rs5743313) were analyzed for polymorphisms in the peripheral blood of 160 COVID-19 patients before COVID-19 vaccine was available in Türkiye...
July 25, 2023: Microbes and Infection