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https://www.sciencedaily.com/rel…"A Neanderthal OAS1 isoform protects individuals of European ancestry against COVID-19 susceptibility and severity"
There is a gene rs10774671-G which protects against Covid and other RNA-viruses like hepatitis c, which explains why some people get sick and others not so much, and more specifically why more black people get covid in America.
15+/- years ago I bought a DNA testing kit from 23andme to check my Native American ancestry (it's 0%). They let you download your genome afterwards. I have this value:
rsid chromosome position genotype
rs10774671 12 111841576 AGGG would be optimal and AA offers no protection.
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- https://www.pnas.org…
https://www.pnas.org…drgs - White power!palimpsest
- But I thought race was a social constructBrabo_Brabo
- The Duke of Edinburgh really did come back as a virus.Chimp
- You native American now?pango
- The ability to understand social constructs requires less chromosomes.palimpsest
- According to 23andme I have "more Neanderthal DNA than 85% of other customers".drgs
- The force is strong with this one.palimpsest
- I'm pretty neanderthal also. Heavy set, thick skull. An arm dragger.Brabo_Brabo
- haha, knuckle dragger. an arm drag is a wrestling move.Brabo_Brabo
- Cave privilegeGnash
- drgs, I have 83% more than most. What does this mean for us?misterhow
- AG as wellmisterhow
- Not having the G allele (AA) makes you 56% more likely to be hospitalized.drgs
- Btw, I was wrong about the G allele in Africa, in fact its dominant there, it is the Neanderthal haplotype that is absent there.drgs
- "The ancestral variant (rs10774671-G) is the major allele in African populations and became fixed in Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes...drgs
- However, the ancestral variant, with its increased expression of the p46 isoform, was reintroduced into the European population via gene flow from Neanderthals"drgs
- Covid mortality is low in Africa:
https://www.healthda…drgs - But this confuses me:
http://cdn.statcdn.c…drgs - Poverty and no access to healthcare plus Africans eat a healthier diet and get more exercise and clean air._niko
- Vs their African American counterparts._niko
- China also have your genome sequence. all those testing kits use chinese labs/resources. China aims to make a virus that Han chinese are immune from.shapesalad
- ^My nightmaredrgs
- Sounds like conspiracy talk. China has a lot of none Han Chinese as well. Unless their officials are highly uneducated, it seems unlikely.pango
- https://www.pnas.org…