Term	Definition
SARS-CoV-2	severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2
MERS	Middle East respiratory syndrome
ACE2	angiotensin-converting enzyme 2
TMPRSS2	transmembrane protease, serine 2
eQTL	expression quantitative trait loci are genomic loci that explain variations in the expression levels of mRNA transcripts.
GEO	Gene Expression Omnibus
LoM	lung-only mice
GTEx	Genotype-Tissue Expression portal database
“GC”, “CC” Genotypes of rs-id of a variant	the nucleotides represent the genotype of a specific eQTL variant, labeled with its unique rs-id.
CFR	case fatality ratio
TPM	transcripts-per-million