Alu retrotransposons and COVID-19 susceptibility and morbidity

Table 1 Genomic information of polymorphic Alus in ACE, PGR, PLAT, and F13B

Gene with polymorphic Alu	Reference SNP cluster ID	Genomic location	Average frequency of insertion^b
Gene with polymorphic Alu	Reference SNP cluster ID	Genomic location	African	European	His/Latino	Asian
ACE	rs4343^a	Chr17:63488670	0.35	0.42	0.47	0.60
PGR	rs1042838^a	Chr11:101062681	0.018	0.17	0.12	0.034
PLAT	rs4646972	Chr8: 42039905	0.31	0.52	0.47	0.50
F13B	rs70942849	Chr1:195278188	0.14	0.40	0.47	0.73

^aThe Alu insertion itself does not have a rs number but it is in a complete LD with the presented rs number
^bCalculated from ALFRED (https://alfred.med.yale.edu/alfred/)

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