Genetic Correlates of Wide Effects from Corona Virus

[RWebb]

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/found-genes-sway-course-coronavirus

[jyl]

I always knew that boinking Neanderthals was going to be no fun.

[RWebb]

Is that why you avoided selecting your ancestors from northern Europe?

[jyl]

Yeah, not enough bats

[GH85Carrera]

I read they are finding people with type O blood seem to have little or no symptoms and or recover faster. Blood type is certainly a genetic item.

[masraum]

THis wouldn't be surprising, really. I've seen a show that indicated that the plague may also have had some folks, that due to genetics were basically immune. If folks had one iteration of a gene, then they'd get sick and recover. If they had 2 instances of the gene, then they didn't even get sick.

I want to say the same show also indicated that AIDS may also have something similar.

I've been thinking that there was something similar for CV. Yes, most folks that are seriously impacted by CV have complicating conditions, but there also seems to be some folks that die that don't seem to have any of those complicating conditions.

[Tobra]

What is the predominant blood type in China?

[3rd_gear_Ted]

If only us common folk had access to the CRISPR technology being used by the uber rich to change their genomic structure.
They are in a totally different league than the rest of us

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by 3rd_gear_Ted

If only us common folk had access to the CRISPR technology being used by the uber rich to change their genomic structure.
They are in a totally different league than the rest of us

The CRISPR tech is available and fairly cheap. How to use it is the hard part. And not making a horrible mistake and not growing a second nose or some other mutation.

[jyl]

I suspect that if you dig deep enough, one's risk of many diseases has a strong genetic influence. The intensity of research on Covid is unusual but the findings likely aren't.

[RWebb]

yup - there is a ton of old immunological research on that - they even went into deep jungle areas and contacted tribes with little exposure to civilization

[Tobra]

According to wiki Yankees 37% Chicom 47% WRT type O blood

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by RWebb

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/found-genes-sway-course-coronavirus

Evolutionary biologists reported last month in Nature that this suspicious region actually came from Neanderthals, through interbreeding with our species tens of thousands of years ago. It is now found in about 16% of Europeans and 50% of South Asians.

Wow.