DNA from Neanderthals Affects Vulnerability to COVID-19 for Asians
A 60,000-year-old Neanderthal gene once made us victorious against viruses, but now it makes us vulnerable to it.
3 min readOct 3, 2020
COVID-19 global pandemic connected many dots that we overlooked before, and one of them is the genetic features of our Neanderthal ancestor. Yes, it’s the DNA from…