Actionable druggable genome-wide Mendelian randomization identifies repurposing opportunities for COVID-19
Publication: Nature Medicine
Liam Gaziano, Claudia Giambartolomei, Alexandre C. Pereira, Anna Gaulton, Daniel C. Posner, Sonja A. Swanson, Yuk-Lam Ho, Sudha K. Iyengar, Nicole M. Kosik, Marijana Vujkovic, David R. Gagnon, A. Patrícia Bento, Inigo Barrio-Hernandez, Lars Rönnblom, Niklas Hagberg, Christian Lundtoft, Claudia Langenberg, Maik Pietzner, Dennis Valentine, Stefano Gustincich, Gian Gaetano Tartaglia, Elias Allara, Praveen Surendran, Stephen Burgess,
Jing Hua Zhao, James E. Peters, Bram P. Prins, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Poornima Devineni, Yunling Shi, Kristine E. Lynch, Scott L. DuVall, Helene Garcon, Lauren O. Thomann, Jin J. Zhou, Bryan R. Gorman, Jennifer E. Huffman, Christopher J. O’Donnell, Philip S. Tsao, Jean C. Beckham, Saiju Pyarajan, Sumitra Muralidhar, Grant D. Huang, Rachel Ramoni, Pedro Beltrao, John Danesh, Adriana M. Hung, Kyong-Mi Chang, Yan V. Sun, Jacob Joseph, Andrew R. Leach, Todd L. Edwards, Kelly Cho, J. Michael Gaziano, Adam S. Butterworth, Juan P. Casas & VA Million Veteran Program COVID-19 Science Initiative
9 April 2021
Summary:
Drug repurposing provides a rapid approach to meet the urgent need for therapeutics to address COVID-19. To identify therapeutic targets relevant to COVID-19, researchers conducted Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses, deriving genetic instruments based on transcriptomic and proteomic data for 1,263 actionable proteins that are targeted by approved drugs or in clinical phase of drug development.
