Severe forms of COVID-19 appear to be more frequent in individuals carrying specific genetic variants. Such variants are found in at least four different loci in the genome. What do you expect this to mean in terms of heritability of susceptibility to severe COVID-19? Group of answer choices Nothing can be said about heritability Heritability could be 0 or 0.25 Heritability is 1 Heritability is greater than 0 Heritability is 0.25 Heritability is greater than 0.25

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Severe forms of COVID-19 appear to be more frequent in individuals carrying specific genetic variants. Such variants are found in at least four different loci in the genome. What do you expect this to mean in terms of heritability of susceptibility to severe COVID-19?
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Nothing can be said about heritability
Heritability could be 0 or 0.25
Heritability is 1
Heritability is greater than 0
Heritability is 0.25
Heritability is greater than 0.25
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Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered virus called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which will cause mild to moderate respiratory illness. This is a zoonotic virus disease found to be transmitted from animals to humans. This virus is spread to humans by bats. Common symptoms of this disease are fever, cough, myalgia, fatigue, dyspnea, and diarrhea. Patients may develop pneumonia and damages the respiratory tract that leads to acute respiratory distress syndrome.

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