{"id":844,"date":"2023-01-04T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/precision-medicine\/?p=844"},"modified":"2023-01-06T20:06:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T20:06:41","slug":"investigating-underlying-human-immunity-genes-implicated-diseases-and-their-relationship-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/precision-medicine\/investigating-underlying-human-immunity-genes-implicated-diseases-and-their-relationship-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 2022 Article in Personalized Medicine by Readership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peer reviewed research article, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC8919975\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Investigating underlying human immunity genes, implicated diseases, and their relationship with the COVID-19<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;, by Drs. Ahmed, Renart, and Zeeshan, has been selected among <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.futuremedicine.com\/doi\/10.2217\/pme-2022-0135?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&amp;rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&amp;rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">top five articles with the highest readership in year 2022<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Ahmed&#8217;s article ranked top as the most read Research Article of the year 2022. <\/strong>This article is about investigating the genetic susceptibility and variations among the DNA of healthy and COVID-19 diseased individuals.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC8919975\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Summary<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The quest to establish an understanding of the genetics underlying COVID-19 is a central focus of life sciences today. COVID-19 is triggered by SARS-CoV-2, a single-stranded RNA respiratory virus. Several clinical-genomics studies have emerged positing different human gene mutations occurring due to COVID-19. A global analysis of these genes was conducted targeting major components of the immune system to identify possible variations likely to be involved in COVID-19 predisposition. Gene-variant analysis was performed on whole-genome sequencing samples collected from diverse populations. ACE2, TMPRSS4, TMPRSS2, SLC6A20 and FYCOI were found to have functional implications and TMPRSS4 may have a role in the severity of clinical manifestations of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 <\/strong><strong>Ahmed Z<\/strong>., Renart., E., Zeeshan, S. (2022). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC8919975\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Investigating underlying human immunity genes, implicated diseases, and their relationship with the COVID-19<\/strong><\/a>. Personalized Medicine. 19(3), 229\u2013250. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/35261286\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PMID: 35261286<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 <\/strong>Jones S. (2023). <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/36598111\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Content highlights of the year: a look over 2022 at Personalized Medicine<\/strong><\/a>. Personalized medicine, 10.2217\/pme-2022-0135. Advance online publication. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/36598111\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PMID: 36598111<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peer reviewed research article, &#8220;Investigating underlying human immunity genes, implicated diseases, and their relationship with the COVID-19&#8220;, by Drs. 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