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A Startling Link Between Neanderthals and COVID-19
A Startling Link Between Neanderthals and COVID-19
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22 minutes
Released:
Dec 8, 2020
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Podcast episode
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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.”
Released:
Dec 8, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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