09/07/2021 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.To learn more, read the article at the useful link. Allegati Studio UniGe e Gaslini su Nature – webpage