COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis creating severe disruptions across the economy and health system. Insights into how to better understand and treat COVID-19 are desperately needed. Given the importance and urgency in obtaining these insights, it is critical for the scientific community to come together around this shared purpose.
The COVID-19 host genetics initiative brings together the human genetics community to generate, share, and analyze data to learn the genetic determinants of COVID-19 susceptibility, severity, and outcomes. FinnGen is one of the data contributors to this important initiative. COVID-19 status of FinnGen participants is based on the Finnish National Infectious Diseases Register and regularly updated.
See the initiative's meta-analysis page for up-to-date results.
The current FinnGen COVID-19 susceptibility GWAS release (Sep 1):
- 357 cases tested positive for COVID-19
- 238,354 population controls
Summary statistics data can be directly downloaded:
- Full summary statistics in build 38
- Summary statistics filtered to p < 1e-5
- Summary statistics filtered to coding variants
The current FinnGen COVID-19 severity GWAS release (Sep 1):
- 83 cases tested positive for COVID-19 and hospitalized
- 238,354 population controls
Summary statistics data can be directly downloaded:
- Full summary statistics in build 38
- Summary statistics filtered to p < 1e-5
- Summary statistics filtered to coding variants