HLA predictions from the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and blood samples of eight COVID-19 patients at the pandemic onset

In this study, researchers assessed if there was a link between host immunity genes (e.g., Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) genes) and susceptibility or resistance to COVID-19 using transcriptome sequencing (RNA-Seq) on libraries made from the bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid and peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PMBC) samples of COVID-19 patients.