RORC and COVID-19: Furthermore, the GWAS of hospitalized COVID-19 identified 3p21.31 locus, wherein the genome-wide significant variant—rs13325613 (chr3:46298373bp; p = 1.17e-08) is a trans-QTL for genes RORA (p = 7.7e-7) and RORC (p = 1.3e-31).