Methylation issues

[glenn_chan]

There have been genetic studies into long COVID that didn’t really find a genetic predisposition for Long COVID. If there are genes that affect methylation and those genes mattered, then maybe they would appear on a genetic GWAS study?

Here’s the thread / my notes on that:

GWAS (genetic) study on Long COVID found only 1 significant association

Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) can find subtle influences of genes on a health condition. They map out important gene variations to see if any of them are unusually common or uncommon among a particular health condition. We already know that Long COVID is more common in people who are female. [image] Data compiled here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bxzgvtOFBzvIQSnFiJqEQ7Lt7wzijpDwBcdnl87gw5I/edit#gid=2093830457 *The data above is from surveys which asked about gender rat…