HLA‐B*46:01, HLA‐B*07:03, and HLA‐DRB1*12:02 were related notably to more susceptibility to SARS infection among Taiwanese, Chinese, Vietnamese populations, respectively,28 but in a related study on 82 Chinese these association were not seen to occur in a significant number of COVID‐19 patients. The gene discussed is HLA-DRB1; the disease is COVID-19.