{"id":105847,"date":"2020-04-21T17:02:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T00:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/scientists-find-genes-can-determine-if-you-are-at-higher-risk-for-fatal-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-04-21T17:02:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T00:02:28","slug":"scientists-find-genes-can-determine-if-you-are-at-higher-risk-for-fatal-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/scientists-find-genes-can-determine-if-you-are-at-higher-risk-for-fatal-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find genes can determine if you are at higher risk for fatal COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-genes-can-determine-if-you-are-at-higher-risk-for-fatal-covid-192.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Essentially, the study found that some immune systems are less capable of recognizing the infection. This diminished ability to recognize the coronavirus can make a person more susceptible to developing symptoms in general, as well as more likely to experience severe symptoms that require hospitalization.<\/p>\n<p>Getting down to the scientific specifics of the findings, the study focused on the immune system genes known as <i>human leukocyte antigen genes.<\/i> These genes are highly involved in the immune system\u2019s ability to recognize pathogens, but they come in a variety of forms and vary from person to person.<\/p>\n<p>The research team, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohsu.edu\/\"> Oregon Health &amp; Science University<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pvarf.org\/\"> Portland VA Research Foundation<\/a>, believe that HLA gene variations may make certain people more vulnerable to the coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essentially, the study found that some immune systems are less capable of recognizing the infection. This diminished ability to recognize the coronavirus can make a person more susceptible to developing symptoms in general, as well as more likely to experience severe symptoms that require hospitalization. Getting down to the scientific specifics of the findings, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}