PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Hugo Zeberg AU - Svante Pääbo TI - A genetic variant protective against severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neandertals AID - 10.1101/2020.10.05.327197 DP - 2020 Jan 01 TA - bioRxiv PG - 2020.10.05.327197 4099 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/10/07/2020.10.05.327197.short 4100 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/10/07/2020.10.05.327197.full AB - The authors have withdrawn their manuscript since the data used in the manuscript was incomplete. It incorrectly used data from the COVID-19 HGI round 4 (alpha) release rather than data presented in the preprint from the GenOMICC consortium (doi:10.1101/2020.09.24.20200048). Therefore, the authors do not wish this work to be cited as reference for the project. If you have any questions, please contact the corresponding author.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.