Exploring COVID-19 causal genes through disease-specific Cis-eQTLs.

"rna-seq scrna-seq and gwas data were downloaded from public databases cis-eqtls results identified from bulk rna-seq data are deposited in github ( https://github com/liangcheng-hrbmu/covid19-bulk-eqtl )."

"rna-seq scrna-seq and gwas data were downloaded from public databases cis-eqtls results identified from bulk rna-seq data are deposited in github ( https://github com/liangcheng-hrbmu/covid19-bulk-eqtl ). supplementary tables1 to 22 could be downloaded from this link: https://github com/liangcheng-hrbmu/covid19-bulk-eqtl/blob/master/supplementary%20tables xls ."

"Declaration of competing interest The authors declare no competing financial interests."

"This work was supported by the Tou-Yan Innovation Team Program of Heilongjiang Province (grant number 2019–15 to LC), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 62222104 and 62172130 to LC), and Heilongjiang Postdoctoral Fund (LBH-Q20030 to LC)."