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    Neanderthal genes could increase the severity of COVID-19 symptoms

    Oct 29, 2020 3 minutes
    DR HUGO ZEBERG

    HOW MUCH OF THE HUMAN GENOME HAS BEEN INHERITED FROM NEANDERTHALS?

    If you have roots from outside of Africa, then roughly 2 per cent of your DNA is Neanderthal. But if we put all these pieces together, we find more than half of the Neanderthal genome in modern humans. But it will differ between people: some carry some pieces, some carry other pieces.

    HOW DO WE KNOW THAT MODERN HUMANS INHERITED NEANDERTHAL DNA?

    During the last two decades

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