An introduction to the initiative
Things to keep in mind when working together
A map of participating studies and study designs
View agendas and watch recordings of previous Covid19 hg meetings
Learn about specialized projects happening within the initiative
Get in touch with Covid19 hg coordinators
Sign up for email updates, meetings, and Slack
How the initiative plans and carries out analyses
Information about submitting data, regulations, and compliance
Policy on data release, usage, and authorship
Meta-analysis results and data downloads
Computational analyses based on the genetic association results
People and projects that have contributed data so far
Written by Nirmal Vadgama, PhD Edited by Kumar Veerapen, PhD and Jamal Nasir, PhD Note: This blog post is catered to the lay audience. The COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative (HGI) represents a consortium of over 1000 scientists from over 54 countries working collaboratively to share data, ideas, recruit patients and disseminate our findings. For a primer on our study design or the results from the…
Written by Annika Faucon and Shea Andrews, PhD Edited by Kumar Veerapen, PhD Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a highly transmissible and pathogenic virus that emerged in late 2019 and as of February 2021 has resulted in more than 2.4 million deaths (further reading: Dong, Ru, and Gardner, 2020). The threat SARS-CoV-2 presents is not uniform; certain pre-existing…
Webinar 8: January 25th, 2021 9:00am EST / 2:00pm GMT / 3:00pm CET Agenda: 1. Welcome & updates (25 min) Topics & speakers: a. Results from data freeze 5 meta-analysis (Andrea Ganna, FIMM) [Slides] b. HGI data browser (Matt Solomonson, Broad Institute) 2. COVID-19 HGI manuscript update (25 min) Topics & speakers: a. Manuscript overview & figures (Mari Niemi, FIMM) [Slides] b. Next steps for HGI…
Webinar 8: November 23rd, 2020 9:00am EST / 2:00pm GMT / 3:00pm CET Agenda: 1. Welcome & updates Speakers: Andrea Ganna (FIMM) [Slides], Matthew Solomonson (Broad) [Slides] Group discussion 2. COVID-19 HGI manuscript update Topics & speakers: a. Manuscript development process and status updates (Andrea Ganna, FIMM) b. Proposed consortium review process (Ben Neale, MGH & Broad) c. Initial proposed…