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SUBMITTER: Srivastava A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7494073 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20200916 9
It was shown that the human Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) is the receptor of recent coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, and variation in this gene may affect the susceptibility of a population. Therefore, we have analysed the sequence data of ACE2 among 393 samples worldwide, focusing on South Asia. Genetically, South Asians are more related to West Eurasian populations rather than to East Eurasians. In the present analyses of ACE2, we observed that the majority of South Asian haplotypes are closer ...[more]