ELF5 and COVID-19: The lead cis-pQTL for ELF5, rs766826 (MAF = 35.9%), has been reported by the COVID-19 HGI15 and is further in strong linkage disequilibrium (LD; r2 = 0.81) with a recently identified variant rs61882275 associated with severe COVID-19 in an independent study using whole genome sequencing34.