Scientists, those genes persist because they were once favorable, perhaps to fight other infections.
The fact that the occasions of tens of thousands of years ago now seem like a kind of conspiracy theory, but science has evidence that the coupling between Neanderthals and fashionable humans has a greater threat of susceptibility to coronavirus today. which increases the threat of a serious COVID-19 infection may have been passed from Neanderthals to fashionable humans.
Swedish and German scientists compared the DNA of patients with very unhealthy coronaviruses to that of neanderthals and their sister organization Denisovans. Europeans and part of the Sudasians bring this gene, as reported in a report published in The Guardian.
Hugo Zeberg, an assistant professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, told the news site that he almost fell off the chair when he discovered the similarities. Zeberg and co-author Svante Paabo those genes persist because they were once favorable, perhaps to fight other infections. His disadvantage has now been exposed with a new infection.
According to his study, a gene organization is discovered at most in Bangladesh, with 63% of the population using at least one copy of the DNA sequence, the report says. Paabo believes these genes may have protected fashionable humans from certain infectious diseases. that no longer exist.
Not only this gene, but other genes have also been passed on to fashionable humans, some and others destructive, Zeberg said.
However, it should be noted that the severity of coronavirus is not only similar to this express gene, but the severity of COVID-19 infection is also related to a variety of factors, which add health, age, gender, ethnicity, obesity, viral load, etc. among others.
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