IFNA1 and COVID-19: Among the non-coding variants, a nominally significant depletion of 3’UTR variants with high CADD scores (CADD≥10) was observed in both gene sets related to IFN-response (Ex_male/IFN_response_COVID-19/UTR3_CADD: p = 0.019; n = 31 genes), and the subset of 13 genes with a priori evidence for an involvement in severe COVID-19 (Ex_all/Zhang et al./UTR3_CADD: p = 0.029).