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A Genetic Variant You May Have Inherited From Neanderthals Reduces the Risk of Severe COVID-19:
[...] SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, impacts people in different ways after infection. Some experience only mild or no symptoms at all while others become sick enough to require hospitalization and may develop respiratory failure and die.
Now, researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) in Japan and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany have found that a group of genes that reduces the risk of a person becoming seriously ill with COVID-19 by around 20% is inherited from Neanderthals.
[...] Last year, Professor Svante Pääbo and his colleague Professor Hugo Zeberg reported in Nature[1] that the greatest genetic risk factor so far identified, doubling the risk to develop severe COVID-19 when infected by the virus, had been inherited from Neanderthals.
Their latest research builds on a new study, published in December last year from the Genetics of Mortality in Critical Care (GenOMICC) consortium in the UK, which [...] pinpointed additional genetic regions on four chromosomes that impact how individuals respond to the virus.
Now, in a study published recently in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)[2], Professor Pääbo and Professor Zeberg show that one of the newly identified regions carries a variant that is almost identical to those found in three Neanderthals – a ~50,000-year-old Neanderthal from Croatia, and two Neanderthals, one around 70,000 years old and the other around 120,000 years old, from Southern Siberia.
[...] To try to understand how this variant affects COVID-19 outcomes, the research team took a closer look at the genes located in this region. They found that three genes in this region, called OAS, code for enzymes that are produced upon viral infection and in turn activate other enzymes that degrade viral genomes in infected cells.
"It seems that the enzymes encoded by the Neanderthal variant are more efficient, reducing the chance of severe consequences to SARS-CoV-2 infections," Professor Pääbo explained.
[...] They found that the variant increased in frequency after the last Ice Age and then increased in frequency again during the past millennium. As a result, today it occurs in about half of people living outside Africa and in around 30% of people in Japan. In contrast, the researchers previously found that the major risk variant inherited from Neanderthals is almost absent in Japan.
"The rise in the frequency of this protective Neanderthal variant suggests that it may have been beneficial also in the past, maybe during other disease outbreaks caused by RNA viruses," said Professor Pääbo.
Obligatory, see also: Ozzy Osbourne's Genome Reveals Some Neandertal Lineage.
Journal References:
[1] Hugo Zeberg, Svante Pääbo. The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals [open], Nature (DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2818-3)
[2] Hugo Zeberg, Svante Pääbo. A genomic region associated with protection against severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neandertals [open], Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2026309118)
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Monday February 22 2021, @05:21AM (11 children)
Reminder. Your claim that I'm waiting for citation is "The genetics controlling the amount of melanin in the skin have a much higher correlation to case severity."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by NateMich on Monday February 22 2021, @12:55PM (6 children)
I think we all know that even if that were the case, nobody is going to report it that way.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday February 22 2021, @01:16PM
Seems TMB knows something that he doesn't want to make public, yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22 2021, @02:30PM (4 children)
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22 2021, @05:45PM (3 children)
Of course poverty, and low income jobs are contributed to by genes. You can pretend we're all born equal under God, but somewhere in the back of your mind, some little inkling must fester, reminding you of the times some genetically unenlightened person has done what you expect some of some idiot to do. And then you begin maybe to think that perhaps, maybe, just maybe, there are other issues in the shallow end of the gene pool.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22 2021, @08:04PM
You're, at best, talking about a fraction of a percent of the people affected by poverty.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 23 2021, @02:16PM (1 child)
I give you Trump and QANON as counter-examples showing that whites can be far more stupid because of the privilege of being white giving them greater opportunity to do stupid without being called out on it.
Watch “Hidden Figures “ it’s the true story of how a group of black women made it possible for America to get back into the space race through grit, determination, and sheer genius.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 24 2021, @11:36PM
"Watch “Hidden Figures “ it’s the true story of how a group of black women made it possible for America to get back into the space race through grit, determination, and sheer genius."
What a dumb little bitch you are. You just lap up everything the Jew feeds you don't you?
(Score: 1) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday February 23 2021, @03:08PM (3 children)
You had one. You just can't tell the difference between correlation and causation.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday February 23 2021, @03:58PM (2 children)
Foof, mate, you're shitposting again.
From the citation you provided (have you read it?)
And this is just for you from the same source
I can guess the restricted health infrastructure impacts your ability to read.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday February 26 2021, @07:07PM (1 child)
Nothing you said contradicts anything I said. You just don't like that I'm correct, so you intentionally misread, misunderstand, and outright lie to yourself.
Here is the only test to prove whether my claim is true or not: have dark folks had more severe cases of coronaids than less dark folks on average. And since you've found nothing whatsoever that disputes the absolute mountains of data around the world saying I am 100% correct, you need to just take the loss and move on.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday February 26 2021, @07:41PM
Mountain of evidence my ass.
I'll let this convo drop, tho', it's a wasted time I can ill afford ATM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford