A Startling Link Between Neanderthals and COVID-19
Publisher |
SAPIENS.org
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
History
Science
Social Sciences
Publication Date |
Dec 08, 2020
Episode Duration |
00:21:37

SAPIENS host Chip Colwell speaks with evolutionary geneticist Hugo Zeberg about his surprising discovery of a connection between Neanderthal DNA and a greater risk for severe COVID-19. Zeberg is also a researcher at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany.Read the paper in Nature Zeberg co-authored announcing the discovery: “The Major Genetic Risk Factor for Severe COVID-19 Is Inherited From Neanderthals.”

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