In a recent study posted to the medRxiv pre-print server, researchers identified potential risk factors and incident symptoms of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the general population of the United Kingdom (UK).
Sam Hodgson and colleagues investigate whether the common genetic differences associated with type 2 diabetes in people of European ancestry can be transferred to people of British Pakistani and Bangladeshi ancestry, integrating a novel polygenic risk score with an established clinical risk score.