Neanderthal Genes Are Linked to Severe Covid Risk
re: COVID
Real science is never settled, and anyone who has certainty on such things is not qualified to discuss it.
Maybe. But it does make sense that some kind of genetic risk is involved.
Neanderthal Genes Are Linked to Severe Covid Risk
2023-09-16. Emphasis added.
Study in Italy’s worst pandemic hot spot sheds light on why some people fell seriously ill and others didn’t
...Scientists at the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research in Milan spent the past few years analyzing possible links between DNA variations and Covid-19. Their study, published in the journal iScience and based on a sample of nearly 10,000 people in the Bergamo area, identified several genes associated with the development of severe respiratory illness. Three of those genes belonged to a group of variations in DNA, or haplotype, inherited from Neanderthals.
...“This study shows there is a particular section of the human genome that is significantly associated with the risk of getting Covid-19 and of developing a severe form of it,” says Giuseppe Remuzzi, an infectious-disease expert and director of the Mario Negri Institute, who oversaw the research. “That section is more important than any others to explain why some fall seriously ill.”
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