The Coronavirus Thread

[rainbow]

Kilts certainly help with personal ventilation...

Many people find men if skirts attractive, but I don't get it.

[Sean Hayden]

[Svartalf]

[rainbow]

The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals

Hugo Zeberg & Svante Pääbo

Nature (2020)

Abstract

A recent genetic association study1 identified a gene cluster on chromosome 3 as a risk locus for respiratory failure upon SARS-CoV-2 infection. A new study2 comprising 3,199 hospitalized COVID-19 patients and controls finds that this is the major genetic risk factor for severe SARS-CoV-2 infection and hospitalization (COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative). Here, we show that the risk is conferred by a genomic segment of ~50 kb that is inherited from Neanderthals and is carried by ~50% of people in South Asia and ~16% of people in Europe today.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586- ... b_3QQFTuSI

[Svartalf]

but how did the neanderthals develop vulnerability to covirs? there never was pangolins in Europe.

[Brian Peacock]

Kilts certainly help with personal ventilation...

Many people find men if skirts attractive, but I don't get it.

Now that's what I call a pair of football boots.

[laklak]

I am strangely aroused. But this one really gets me moist. Got that real sexy librarian look.

[JimC]

but how did the neanderthals develop vulnerability to covirs? there never was pangolins in Europe.

One doesn't "develop vulnerability" to an infectious agent - that's the default state. One develops immunity, if one is lucky...

[rainbow]

but how did the neanderthals develop vulnerability to covirs? there never was pangolins in Europe.

It is possible that there were outbreaks of coronavirus in Africa before the main exodus of Homo Sapiens into Eurasia. That means immunity rather than vulnerability.

[NineBerry]

No, what those people say has nothing to do with immunity. Rather they say the gene controls aspects of the body that make the body take more damage from this very specific species of the virus.

However, in very sceptic because there seem to be a lot of people with non-European ancestry heavily affected by the virus

[rainbow]

No, what those people say has nothing to do with immunity. Rather they say the gene controls aspects of the body that make the body take more damage from this very specific species of the virus.

However, in very sceptic because there seem to be a lot of people with non-European ancestry heavily affected by the virus

All humans have non-European ancestry. It is just that some of our Northern cousins had a touch of the Neanderthal brush. Africans somewhat less which might explain the relatively low death rates.
The data isn't good enough to take that beyond an observation. We watch with interest...

[Scot Dutchy]

No, what those people say has nothing to do with immunity. Rather they say the gene controls aspects of the body that make the body take more damage from this very specific species of the virus.

However, in very sceptic because there seem to be a lot of people with non-European ancestry heavily affected by the virus

All humans have non-European ancestry. It is just that some of our Northern cousins had a touch of the Neanderthal brush. Africans somewhat less which might explain the relatively low death rates.
The data isn't good enough to take that beyond an observation. We watch with interest...

African data??? Is that from the bush telegraph? European data is not trustworthy never mind talking about African data.

[rainbow]

No, what those people say has nothing to do with immunity. Rather they say the gene controls aspects of the body that make the body take more damage from this very specific species of the virus.

However, in very sceptic because there seem to be a lot of people with non-European ancestry heavily affected by the virus

All humans have non-European ancestry. It is just that some of our Northern cousins had a touch of the Neanderthal brush. Africans somewhat less which might explain the relatively low death rates.
The data isn't good enough to take that beyond an observation. We watch with interest...

African data??? Is that from the bush telegraph? European data is not trustworthy never mind talking about African data.

Something I'd expect from a small-minded racist.
BTW the paper is from that well known African research centre, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

...now off to my mud hut to enjoy a meal of roots and leaves.

[Scot Dutchy]

Something I'd expect from a small-minded racist.
BTW the paper is from that well known African research centre, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

Listen here sunshine. That is some unjustified insult. I demand an apology!
You have insulted me and my country for along enough now. Now you come up with this load of nonsense which has nothing to do with anything. You did not add the source. You try to be so secretive about your lovely country when in fact the real reason you are ashamed to mention it because it is such a dump.
Now FO but of course no action will be taken because if it does you will claim it is a racist action.

[Svartalf]

No, what those people say has nothing to do with immunity. Rather they say the gene controls aspects of the body that make the body take more damage from this very specific species of the virus.

However, in very sceptic because there seem to be a lot of people with non-European ancestry heavily affected by the virus

All humans have non-European ancestry. It is just that some of our Northern cousins had a touch of the Neanderthal brush. Africans somewhat less which might explain the relatively low death rates.
The data isn't good enough to take that beyond an observation. We watch with interest...

African data??? Is that from the bush telegraph? European data is not trustworthy never mind talking about African data.

Something I'd expect from a small-minded racist.
BTW the paper is from that well known African research centre, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

...now off to my mud hut to enjoy a meal of roots and leaves.

I hope you also have palm wine, I particularly like the smoky variety they make in Bamberg.