Human genetics can inform the biology and epidemiology of coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) by pinpointing causal mechanisms that explain why some individuals become …

Neanderthals, our closest extinct relatives, lived in western Eurasia from 400,000 years ago
until they went extinct around 40,000 years ago. DNA retrieved from ancient specimens …

Background As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to progress,
awareness about its long-term impacts has been growing. To date, studies on the long-term …

Humans display substantial interindividual clinical variability after SARS-CoV-2 infection,–,
the genetic and immunological basis of which has begun to be deciphered. However, the …

COVID Societies presents a compelling and accessible overview of key sociocultural
theories that can help us make sense of the diverse, dynamic and complex elements of the …

SARS-CoV-2 infections display tremendous interindividual variability, ranging from
asymptomatic infections to life-threatening disease. Inborn errors of, and autoantibodies …

Driven by co‐evolution with pathogens, host immunity continuously adapts to optimize
defence against pathogens within a given environment. Recent advances in genetics …

The global propagation of SARS‐CoV‐2 and the detection of a large number of variants,
some of which have replaced the original clade to become dominant, underscores the fact …

Estimating viral timescales is fundamental in understanding the evolutionary biology of
viruses. Molecular clocks are widely used to reveal the recent evolutionary histories of …

Large genomic insertions and deletions are a potent source of functional variation, but are
challenging to resolve with short-read sequencing, limiting knowledge of the role of such …