As for the confirmed variant rs1886814 in the intron of FOXP4-AS1 (forkhead box P4 antisense RNA 1), recent trans-ethnic genome-wide association study of severe COVID-19 that incorporated Chinese population and HGI results also revealed a significant variant nearby, rs1853837 (Wu et al., 2021), which is LD with rs1886814 (1000 Genomes Project CHB, r2 = 0.68). This evidence concerns the gene FOXP4 and COVID-19.