Please join us!
You can join COVID Human Genetic Effort in three ways!
You can get involved by:
1- Joining the Steering Committee or becoming a Regional/National Coordinator
Criteria to become a Member: Promote and support patient recruitment efforts by Participating Centers and sequencing data analysis by Sequencing Hubs, while coordinating the experimental validation of candidate genotypes.
Contact COVID Human Genetic Effort co-leaders, Jean-Laurent Casanova and Helen Su, to get involved.
2- Leading a Sequencing Hub
Criteria to create a Sequencing Hub: Share all exome/genome data on a single platform, enabling access to all other hubs involved in this effort, and reciprocally gaining access to the data from the other hubs.
Contact us or any member of the COVID Human Genetic Effort Steering Committee to get involved.
3- Leading a Participating Center
Criteria to create a Participating Center: Share samples (whole blood, fresh or frozen, or genomic DNA) from patients (and their relatives) that fit within the recruitment criteria below to any of the Sequencing Hubs.
Contact us or any members of the COVID Human Genetic Effort Steering Committee for additional details.
Recruitment criteria:
Children or adults of all ages exposed to or infected with SARS-CoV-2, falling in any of the three following categories:
(i) Subjects with critical COVID-19 pneumonia, MIS-C, Long COVID, COVID Toes, Guillain-Barré, or encephalitis.
(ii) Subjects repeatedly exposed to SARS-CoV-2, yet not infected.
(iii) Subjects who remained asymptomatic despite documented SARS-CoV-2 infection.