{"id":13787,"date":"2020-07-10T16:28:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T16:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2020-07-10\/dos-cientificos-vinculan-una-mayor-gravedad-de-la-covid-al-adn-heredado-de-los-neandertales.html"},"modified":"2020-07-10T16:28:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T16:28:21","slug":"dos-cientificos-vinculan-una-mayor-gravedad-de-la-covid-al-adn-heredado-de-los-neandertales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/dos-cientificos-vinculan-una-mayor-gravedad-de-la-covid-al-adn-heredado-de-los-neandertales\/","title":{"rendered":"Two scientists link greater severity of covid to DNA inherited from Neanderthals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Modern humans left Africa about 65,000 years ago and along the way were <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/elpais\/2016\/02\/16\/ciencia\/1455633230_824000.html\" >fornicating with other human species<\/a> oldest species that they found in Europe and Asia, such as the Neanderthals. Two Swedish scientists now maintain that the genetic fingerprint of those prehistoric intercourse explains the greater fragility of some current citizens against the new coronavirus. \u201cThe main genetic risk factor for suffering from the severe form of Covid-19 is inherited from Neanderthals,\u201d conclude the two researchers, highly respected in their field. Are <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/elpais\/2015\/09\/25\/ciencia\/1443202617_851224.html\">Svante P\u00e4\u00e4bo<\/a>, director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, and his colleague <a href=\"https:\/\/pure.mpg.de\/cone\/persons\/resource\/persons247764\">Hugo Zeberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2020-07-10\/dos-cientificos-vinculan-una-mayor-gravedad-de-la-covid-al-adn-heredado-de-los-neandertales.html\" >Keep reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedes Svante P\u00e4\u00e4bo, winner of the Princess of Asturias, and Hugo Zeberg maintain that a genetic variant of Neanderthal origin today has &quot;tragic consequences&quot;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13788,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13787\/revisions\/13788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}