Posted on 12/08/2020 6:41:54 AM PST by blam
Dr Hugo Zeberg, assistant professor in the department of neuroscience at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, talks to Jason Goodyer about his research into Neanderthal genes and the impact they could have on COVID-19 patients.
How much of the human genome has been inherited from Neanderthals?
If you have roots from outside of Africa, then roughly 2 per cent of your DNA is Neanderthal. But if we put all these pieces together, we find more than half of the Neanderthal genome in modern humans. But it will differ between people: some carry some pieces, some carry other pieces.
How do we know that modern humans inherited Neanderthal DNA?
During the last two decades people have been studying this, and a draft Neanderthal genome was published 10 years ago. Svante Pääbo and his colleagues at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, with whom I collaborate, managed to extract the whole DNA code from Neanderthal bones that we can compare to people living today.
We have three really good Neanderthal genomes: one from a Neanderthal found in Croatia, and two found in Siberia.
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I guess that I must not have very much neantherdal.
So if you have Neanderthal genes your death rate increases from 99.94% to 99.97%
That’s a strange assertion seeing as how scientists attribute our adaptable immune system to our Neanderthal DNA.
“But if we put all these pieces together, we find more than half of the Neanderthal genome in modern humans.”
Interesting...
What a bunch of nonsense. Good grief! In a tumultuous year as 2020, we have people publishing this sort of stuff. Man...everyone looking for ten minutes of notoriety.
Rep. Al Green (D-mented) is deeply saddened.
It COULD also make you immune.
This was published because Europeans and certain Middle East peoples (e.g., Jewish people) have much higher Neaderthal DNA than, say, blacks or certain Chinese.
Ergo, the Neaderthal DNA is now bad.
It’s the same “science” that coined things like “testosterone poisoning” and “anthropomorphic climate change”.
I am confused be this phrase from the article .. .guess I’m just stupid “ If you have roots from outside of Africa”.
Does that mean “if you are of African descent “.? What would “ If you have roots from inside of Africa” mean?
Maybe that’s why the Leftists are so afraid of the coronavirus...and everyone else is kinda blasé...
“Neanderthal Genes Could Increase The Severity Of COVID-19 Symptoms”
Explains why the GOP Leadership is being hit so hard.
Neanderthal DNA By Race: Asians Have Closer Link From Multiple Breeding Events, Studies Say
Neanderthals interbred with both the ancestors of modern Europeans and Asians about 50,000 years ago, but scientists looking at Neanderthal DNA by race have speculated why East Asians have a greater proportion of the ancestry than Europeans. New research suggests our heavy-browed ancestors bred with East Asians on multiple occasions, giving the contemporary East Asian population higher levels of Neanderthal DNA, according to two studies published last week in the American Journal of Human Genetics.
Scientists have long hypothesized why East Asians on average carry 15 percent to 30 percent more Neanderthal DNA than Europeans.
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What about those of us who have Troglodyte genes?
Inquiring for a friend.
It’s so Sciency
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