RT Journal Article T1 Occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 viremia is associated with genetic variants of genes related to COVID-19 pathogenesis A1 Roy Vallejo, Emilia A1 Fernández De Córdoba-Oñate, Sara A1 Delgado-Wicke, Pablo A1 Triguero-Martínez, Ana A1 Montes, Nuria A1 Carracedo-Rodríguez, Rosa A1 Zurita-Cruz, Nelly A1 Marcos-Jiménez, Ana A1 Lamana Domínguez, Amalia A1 Galván-Román, José María A1 Villapalos García, Gonzalo A1 Zubiaur, Pablo A1 Ciudad, Marianela A1 Rabes, Laura A1 Rodríguez, Carlos A1 Villa, Almudena A1 Álvarez Rodríguez, Jesús A1 Marcos, Celeste A1 Hernando, Julia A1 Díaz-Fernández, Paula A1 Abad, Francisco A1 Santos, Ignacio de los A1 Sanz Sanz, Marta A1 Rodríguez Serrano, Diego A1 García-Vicuña, Rosario A1 Suárez Fernández, Carmen A1 Pérez Gomáriz, Rosa María A1 Muñoz-Calleja, Cecilia A1 Fernández-Ruiz, Elena A1 González-Álvaro, Isidoro A1 Cardeñoso, Laura AB Introduction: SARS-CoV-2 viral load has been related to COVID-19 severity. The main aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between SARS-CoV-2 viremia and SNPs in genes previously studied by our group as predictors of COVID-19 severity. Materials and methods: Retrospective observational study including 340 patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in the University Hospital La Princesa between March 2020 and December 2021, with at least one viremia determination. Positive viremia was considered when viral load was above the quantifiable threshold (20 copies/ml). A total of 38 SNPs were genotyped. To study their association with viremia a multivariate logistic regression was performed. Results: The mean age of the studied population was 64.5  years (SD 16.6), 60.9% patients were male and 79.4% white non-Hispanic. Only 126 patients (37.1%) had at least one positive viremia. After adjustment by confounders, the presence of the minor alleles of rs2071746 (HMOX1; T/T genotype OR 9.9 p PB Frontiers SN 2296-858X YR 2023 FD 2023 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/94195 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/94195 LA eng NO Roy-Vallejo, Emilia, et al. «Occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 viremia is associated with genetic variants of genes related to COVID-19 pathogenesis». Frontiers in Medicine, vol. 10, septiembre de 2023, p. 1215246. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2023.1215246. NO This study was funded with grants: “Fondos Supera COVID19” by Banco Santander and CRUE to CSF, RG-V, CM-C, and RPG; RD21/0002/0027, PI18/0371 and PI21/00526 to IG-Á, and PI19/00096 to EF-R from Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Instituto de Salud Carlos III) and co-funded by European regional development fund (ERDF) “A way to make Europe”; and co-financed by the Community of Madrid through the Covid 2019 Aid. The work of ER-V has been funded by a Rio-Hortega grant CM19/00149 from the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Instituto de Salud Carlos III) and co-funded by The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) “A way to make Europe.” GVG is co-financed by Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) and the European Social Fund (PFIS predoctoral grant, number FI20/00090). PZ is financed by Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Margarita Salas contract, grants for the requalification of the Spanish university system. NO Comunidad de Madrid NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España) NO European Commission NO Instituto de Salud Carlos III DS Docta Complutense RD 12 abr 2025