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cord-257142-q79yy6o5	Wambier, Carlos Gustavo	Androgen sensitivity gateway to COVID‐19 disease severity	2020-05-15		.txt	text/plain	3188	172	43	Similarly, we believe that shorter CAG repeats in the androgen receptor gene may be associated with increased COVID-19 disease severity and mortality. A spectrum of androgenic activity would imply in polar pauciviral COVID-19 (e.g., children < 7), with null airway/fecal transmission potential, women with normal androgen activity would have low transmission potential (borderline pauciviral COVID-19), male teenagers and adults would have high transmission potential (borderline multiviral , and infected individuals with abnormally high androgen receptor activity (genetic or acquired) would represent the multiviral COVID-19 pole of the spectrum, with extremely high transmission To further test this hypothesis, it would be interesting to observe for severe COVID cases in female patients who present with increase androgens, for example, females with metabolic syndrome, or whom are using birth control methods with progestogen hormones that bind to androgen receptor. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection is likely to be androgen mediated	./cache/cord-257142-q79yy6o5.txt	./txt/cord-257142-q79yy6o5.txt