Describe Heredity vs Environment.

Guidelines:

Read, critically, the following paper

Raisi-Estabragh, Z., McCracken, C., Bethell, M.S., Cooper, J., Cooper, C., Caulfield, M.J., Munroe, P.B., Harvey, N.C., Petersen, S.E. (2020) Greater risk of severe COVID-19 in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic populations is not explained by cardiometabolic, socioeconomic or behavioural factors, or by 25(OH)-vitamin D status: study of 1326 cases from the UK Biobank. Journal of Public Health, Vol.42(3), pp. 451–460.

The paper is freely accessible, and can be opened via the following link: https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdaa095

Write about the article, in no more than 1000 words, using language that is suitable for the general public, and using the following sub-headings (guidelines to content and marking are provided in brackets):

1. Background (provide relevant information on the biology of the disease COVID-19, 10/25 marks)

2. Key findings (discuss the key messages from the article in relation to other research studies, with a focus on the relative role of genes and environment in determining the severity of disease caused by SARS-CoV-2; 12/25 marks)

3. References (list of papers cited in the text in relation to the key findings discussed above, minimum 3 articles, 3/25 marks)

Make sure that you are communicating the scientific concepts in a way that the general public would be able to understand (it might help if you imagine you are writing in the style an article for a major newspaper). You should cite the work of others as references in the text, using Harvard Referencing – following the UWS Guide