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He has also worked with Svante Pääbo for years and published a collaborative study in the journal Nature in 2020, providing evidence suggesting a role for genetics in the severity of COVID-19. He identified a 50-kilobase genomic region inherited from Neanderthals on chromosome 3 as the primary genetic risk factor for severe SARS-CoV-2 symptoms.
The remnants of Neanderthal DNA are more common in people from Europe and Asia. They could confer an advantage during a coronavirus infection.
In 2020, research by Zeberg and Paabo found that a major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals. “We compared it to the Neanderthal genome and it was a perfect ...
The research in Science found that genetic variants inherited from our Neanderthal ancestors are unevenly distributed across the human genome. Some regions, which the scientists call “archaic ...
Neanderthal genomes sequenced include those from Denisova Cave [8] [9] [10] including an offspring of a Neanderthal and a Denisovan, [11] from Chagyrskaya Cave, [12] from Vindija Cave, [13] [9] [14] Mezmaiskaya cave, Les Cottés cave, Goyet Caves and Spy Cave, [14] Hohlenstein-Stadel and Scladina caves [15] Galería de las Estatuas [16] and ...
The Neanderthal DNA found in modern human genomes has long raised questions about ancient interbreeding. New studies offer a timeline of when that occurred and when ancient humans left Africa.
David Reich says in a talk at that as Neanderthals had more disadvntageous alleles than modern humans, and they have been bred out over the last 40,000 years, the proportion of Neanderthal ancestors in non-African modern humans is much higher than the proportion of Neanderthal DNA, probably 10% to 20%. This point would be worth adding if anyone ...
A specific form of a protein passed down from Neanderthals protects against severe COVID-19, according to a new study. UK variant linked to high viral loads, Neanderthal gene offers protection ...