Researchers from Gaslini and the University of Genoa contribute to a large international study published in ''Nature'', carried out by 3500 researchers from 25 countries, involving 50 thousand patients and 2 million healthy controls. The study has identified 13 regions of the genome that lead to the severe form of COVID-19; smoking and obesity have been confirmed as risk factors.

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