DNA from Neanderthals affects vulnerability to covid-19

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New research could shed light on why some countries or populations appear to have been hit harder by covid-19 than others

-2 uses to enter cells and hijack them. The haplotype is also thought to be involved in the production of signalling proteins, called cytokines, that help to regulate the immune system. An overly aggressive immune response is one mechanism by which covid-19 kills.

On the other hand, some of those cytokines protect against cholera. The researchers speculate that may be why the haplotype is common in Bangladesh and India, where cholera has long been a problem. And there is evidence that, even as evolution has been boosting the haplotype in some populations, it has been working to remove it from others.

This helpful sequence is more well-travelled than the harmful one. It is present in every part of the world except sub-Saharan Africa. Between 25% and 35% of the population of Eurasia carry at least one copy. In Vietnam and eastern China more than half the population are carriers. It also exists, at much lower rates, among American populations of mainly African descent, many of whom will have some more recent Eurasian ancestry as well.

Scientists also have a better idea of what it does, for it was known to researchers even before the news of its Neanderthal origin. The haplotype hampers the spread of

 

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Argh make sense why then Africa has lower cases. Thought at first due to its climate. I wonder how this affect them with Denisovan DNA like Aboriginals/Papuans/Melanesians.

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I thought Asians have a higher degree of neanderthal dna, followed by whites, and blacks have virtually none?

Puzzling then that the UK and US death rates have been so high, seeing as both countries have been governed by barely evolved apepeople of late.

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Or simply because the big pharmas haven't made enough money of vaccines yet and / or governments haven't yet gained full control over the entire population 🤔 To leaders are free thinkers more of a danger than Covid-19?

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According to accepted theory, we all have a bit of Neanderthal DNA. Too bad a Geomagnetic Excursion wiped them out.

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Neanderthals? Yes, I am from Texas and lucky as heck. Ask Joe.

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“Neanderthals seem never to have lived in Africa” - interesting, didn’t know that

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What about the living Neanderthals called the GOP?

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Bit early to draw any conclusions regarding Covid?

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I think those with stronger immunity may have been exposed to a wider array of microbes in their respective countries.

south african is hard hit but in Zimbabwe we not affected a bit

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How can that be Neanderthal if that’s what Steve Bannon looks like now?

There are races with stronger immunity and others with weaker immunity

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The fact that the few countries that are hit hard by covid-19 have a higher suicide rate than the rest of the world suggests a response to their vulnerability.

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