Genes that may raise the risk of dying from Covid-19 were inherited from NEANDERTHALS that lived up

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Genes that may raise the risk of dying from Covid-19 were inherited from NEANDERTHALS that lived up to 60,000 years ago, study claims

Genetic code was first spotted in a Neanderthal from Croatia 50,000 years ago
It is still prevalent in people in South Asia and particularly Bangladesh
The genes are also found in around 8% of Europeans and 4% of Americans
May have affected immune system in history and now raise risk of over-reaction

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...NDERTHALS.html

[Crimea-Khan]

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[Crimea-Khan]

Genetic code was first spotted in a Neanderthal from Croatia 50,000 years ago

[Zoro]

The scientific paper lists the following risk SNPs. The only problem is I don't think any of the commercial DNA companies genotypes them.

3 45871908
3 45867440
3 45864732
3 45862952
3 45861932
3 45859651
3 45880481
3 45889921
3 45889949
3 45899651
3 45801089
3 45888690
3 45808116
3 45809024
3 45876460
3 45876459

[Petalpusher]

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wow 165, that's the lowest neanderthal I've seen. Mine is 273 and on the 44 percentile.

[Lemminkäinen]

Out of the 2,872 variants we tested, we found 272 variants in your DNA that trace back to the Neanderthals.

All together, your Neanderthal ancestry accounts for less than ~2 percent of your DNA.

[Zoro]

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I have a hard time believing that a Russian or Tatar would only get 165 variants or 4% of 23andme customers. I would think that level would be for North Africans or maybe even east Africans?

Because on the V5 chip even kurds get more than 67% of 23andme customers out of 7400 Neanderthal variance tested so I would think that Russians should get even more than that

On V4 chip 23andme was only testing 2800 Neanderthal variants but even then Kurds were getting 270 variants

[Lemminkäinen]

The scientific paper lists the following risk SNPs. The only problem is I don't think any of the commercial DNA companies genotypes them.

3 45871908
3 45867440
3 45864732
3 45862952
3 45861932
3 45859651
3 45880481
3 45889921
3 45889949
3 45899651
3 45801089
3 45888690
3 45808116
3 45809024
3 45876460
3 45876459

I had only 45864732 and it was not a risk allele, mine is homozygous TT. I can impute more, giving a statistic idea.

[Lemminkäinen]

I have a hard time believing that a Russian or Tatar would only get 165 variants or 4% of 23andme customers. I would think that level would be for North Africans or maybe even east Africans?

Because on the V5 chip even kurds get more than 67% of 23andme customers out of 7400 Neanderthal variance tested so I would think that Russians should get even more than that

On V4 chip 23andme was only testing 2800 Neanderthal variants but even then Kurds were getting 270 variants

In general Russians have a medium/high level of Neandethal ancestry, but it doesn't necessarily correspond with the Covid-19 risk.