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A genetic variant associated with aquaporin 3 expression is correlated to in-hospital death in COVID-19 patients with extracellular hyperosmolality

2025· article· en· W4409624683 on OpenAlexafffund
Michael Hultström, Amanda Marks, Guillaume Butler‐Laporte, Satoshi Yoshiji, Tianyuan Lu, David Morrison, Tomoko Nakanishi, Yiheng Chen, Vincenzo Forgetta, Yossi Farjoun, Robert Frithiof, Miklós Lipcsey, Hugo Zeberg, J. Brent Richards

Bibliographic record

VenuePhysiological Genomics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicIon Transport and Channel Regulation
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
FundersLady Davis Institute for Medical ResearchCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchNjurfondenCancer Research UKVetenskapsrådetHjärt-LungfondenSvenska LäkaresällskapetKnut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse
KeywordsGenotypeBiologyHomeostasisAquaporin 3AquaporinOdds ratioInternal medicineCohortPhysiologyBioinformaticsEndocrinologyMedicineGeneticsGene

Abstract

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, linked to severe COVID-19, amplifies the risk of death in patients with elevated plasma osmolality. In patients hospitalized with COVID-19, we show that although the variant does not affect systemic osmolality directly, it interacts with hyperosmolality to increase mortality risk. These findings highlight a potential mechanism where AQP3 overexpression disrupts cellular water handling during critical illness, offering new insight into the role of water balance in COVID-19 pathophysiology.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.307
Threshold uncertainty score0.571

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.227
Teacher spread0.217 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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