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ARCHIVED - Researchers claim that Neanderthal ancestry reduces the risk of serious Covid illness by 22 per cent
The conclusion reached by investigators could explain why those of African origin are more likely to fall seriously ill
A paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences magazine in the USA concludes that people with traces of Neanderthal ancestry in their DNA have a 22 per cent greater chance of avoiding serious illness as a consequence of contracting Covid-19, due to the presence of a genetic mutation which serves to alleviate the effects of the virus.
This mutation was found by the research team to be present in all Neanderthal DNA samples and in approximately 30 per cent of a sample of 2,200 people of European and Asiatic origin, and experts at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig believe that it may have been transmitted from generation to generation over the millennia due to its contribution to the survival of our species.
It is also speculated that the presence of this mutation in Europe and Asia may help to explain why those with African origins are more susceptible to serious illness after becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2, as before the Neanderthals died out around 40,000 years ago they are known to have inter-bred with Homo sapiens in Europe and Asia but not in Africa.
It is estimated that approximately 2 per cent of the DNA Of Europeans and Asians goes back to the Neanderthals, a figure based on the sample population used in the study, and in the course of their investigation the team made comparisons with DNA samples from four precursors of modern man, three Neanderthals and one Denisovan, who lived between 50,000 and 120,000 years ago in Siberia and Croatia.