A haemochromatosis-causing HFE mutation is associated with SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility in the Czech population.

"Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper."

"The study was supported by Ministry of Health, Czech Republic - conceptual development of research organization (“Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine – IKEM, IN 00023001”). J.A. Hubacek: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft. T. Philipp: Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing. V. Adamkova: Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing. O. Majek: Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing. L. Dusek: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing."