Next data freeze: 15th of April
Learn and collaborate
Covid19 Host Genetics Initiative basics
An introduction to the initiative
Principles of collaboration
Things to keep in mind when working together
Study partners
A map of participating studies and study designs
Meeting archive
View agendas and watch recordings of previous Covid19 hg meetings
Projects
Learn about specialized projects happening within the initiative
Contact
Get in touch with Covid19 hg coordinators
Register your study
Sign up for email updates, meetings, and Slack
Data and results
Analysis approach
How the initiative plans and carries out analyses
Contributing data
Information about submitting data, regulations, and compliance
Terms of use
Policy on data release, usage, and authorship
View latest results
Meta-analysis results and data downloads
In silico follow up
Computational analyses based on the genetic association results
Data contributor acknowledgements
People and projects that have contributed data so far
News
March 02, 2021
Webinar 10: February 26th, 2021 9:00am EST / 2:00pm GMT / 3:00pm CET Agenda: 1. Welcome & updates (35 min) Topics & speakers: a. Manuscript overview & timeline; next steps for HGI (Andrea Ganna, FIMM) [Slides] b. Manuscript review process & updated figures (Mari Niemi, FIMM; Shea Andrews, Icahn School of Medicine; Gita Pathak, Yale; Masa Kanai, Broad Institute) [Slides] 2. Community updates (2…
March 02, 2021
Written by Minttu Marttila, Annika Faucon, Nirmal Vadgama, Shea Andrews, Brooke Wolford, and Kumar Veerapen on behalf of the COVID-19 HGI Note: The COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative (HGI) represents a consortium of over 2000 scientists from over 54 countries working collaboratively to share data, ideas, recruit patients and disseminate our findings. For a primer on our study design, please read…
February 19, 2021
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…
February 05, 2021
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…