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To overcome these challenges, a proxy-based, hypothesis-generating strategy was conducted to prioritize candidate risk loci on studying long COVID by analyzing GWAS summary statistics of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) susceptibility, hospitalization, and long COVID from the COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative (Release 7), resulting in 62 candidate loci represented by independent variants. These variants are grouped into three categories: (1) severe COVID-19-specific variants, exhibiting reduced signals in non-hospitalized cases; (2) variants associated with both severe and mild COVID-19, and (3) non-hospitalization-specific variants associated with mild cases. Evaluation using recently published long COVID datasets from the same consortium demonstrated that most candidate variants displayed weaker associations around nominal significance, with only a single genome-wide significant signal at rs12660421 of\n                    <jats:italic>FOXP1<\/jats:italic>\n                    . Integrative gene expression analyses further demonstrated that genes near these candidate loci exhibits weaker associations with long COVID than with acute COVID-19 outcomes. However, broader phenome-wide analyses identified 52 genes linked to traits relevant to long COVID. 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