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Women with Neandertal Gene Variant are More Fertile, Have Fewer Miscarriages

posted by martyb on Thursday May 28 2020, @04:37PM   Printer-friendly

takyon writes:

Women with Neandertal gene give birth to more children

One in three women in Europe inherited the receptor for progesterone from Neandertals – a gene variant associated with increased fertility, fewer bleedings during early pregnancy and fewer miscarriages. This is according to a study published in Molecular Biology and Evolution by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.

[...] Progesterone is a hormone, which plays an important role in the menstrual cycle and in pregnancy. Analyses of biobank data from more than 450,000 participants – among them 244,000 women – show that almost one in three women in Europe have inherited the progesterone receptor from Neandertals. 29 percent carry one copy of the Neandertal receptor and three percent have two copies.

"The proportion of women who inherited this gene is about ten times greater than for most Neandertal gene variants," says Hugo Zeberg. "These findings suggest that the Neandertal variant of the receptor has a favourable effect on fertility."

Neanderthals.

Journal Reference:
Hugo Zeberg, Janet Kelso, Svante Pääbo. Neandertal Progesterone Receptor [open], Molecular Biology and Evolution (DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msaa119)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2020, @07:52PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2020, @07:52PM (#1000260)

    That heavy-browed chick across the bar from you giving you the eye WILL get pregnant on your ass!
    You have been SCIENTIFICALLY warned!

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by FatPhil on Friday May 29 2020, @12:36AM (1 child)

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Friday May 29 2020, @12:36AM (#1000337) Homepage

    Yeah, but you'd better not reject her advances.

    Unless you want to experience the neanderthal version of clubbing all night long.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 29 2020, @01:37AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 29 2020, @01:37AM (#1000354)

      Death by clubbing, death by snu-snu... actually better take the snu-snu.

  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday May 29 2020, @11:47AM (1 child)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday May 29 2020, @11:47AM (#1000489) Homepage Journal

    Their chicks didn't have heavy brows like the dudes. If you want to know what Neanderthal women looked like, search up some Gal Gadot images. She's pretty close, bone-structure-wise.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 29 2020, @07:24PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 29 2020, @07:24PM (#1000699)

      Funny you should mention that.
      I always thought her face was way too large for her head. She has no forehead. She does look like a beautiful version of an archaic humanoid.