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Posted on 04/25/2021 7:50:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
An ancient coronavirus, or a closely related pathogen, triggered an epidemic among ancestors of present-day East Asians roughly 25,000 years ago, a new study indicates.
Analysis of DNA from more than 2,000 people shows that genetic changes in response to that persistent epidemic accumulated over the next 20,000 years or so, David Enard, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, reported April 8 at the virtual annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. The finding raises the possibility that some East Asians today have inherited biological adaptations to coronaviruses or closely related viruses.
The discovery opens the way to exploring how genes linked to ancient viral epidemics may contribute to modern disease outbreaks, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Genes with ancient viral histories might also provide clues to researchers searching for better antiviral drugs, although that remains to be demonstrated.
Enard's group consulted a publicly available DNA database of 2,504 individuals from 26 ethnic populations on five continents, including Chinese Dai, Vietnamese Kinh and African Yoruba people. The team first focused on 420 proteins known to interact with coronaviruses, including 332 that interact with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. These interactions could range from boosting immune responses to making it easier for a virus to hijack a cell.
Substantially increased production of all 420 proteins, a sign of past exposures to coronavirus-like epidemics, appeared only in East Asians. Enard’s group traced the viral responses of 42 of those proteins back to roughly 25,000 years ago.
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They unearthed a 25,000 year-old mask?
Corona is what killed off the dinosaurs, so you should be super scared....I mean really scared. You should not only shut down your life but you should shut down the lives of all those around you.
Thankfully we now have Bill Gates...... the savior of hummanity! If only the dinosaurs had listened and destroyed their lives and the lives of all those around them....
Do I really need the sarc tag?
If what you are watching is about autosomal DNA and familial relationships this is something entirely different. DNA proteins and how they have evolved can be studied even farther back than this.
‘I thought coronaviruses are fake?’
pretty lame zinger there; do try to put more thought into your next efforts...
Turned out it was from an 25,000 year old theater production.
Gesundheit.
Gesundheit
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Thank you, that sneeze kind of snuck up on me. Thankfully I was taught manners growing up so I covered my mouth and washed my hands.
See how easy that was everyone. Simple manners, taught by all in the past, and no need for a muzzle. How novel......
I can see right through this.
Propaganda to convince people that Covid is just a reoccurring kind of virus. They don’t want people to be thinking that it was artificially created in a Lab. Which it was.
‘Simple manners, taught by all in the past, and no need for a muzzle. How novel......’
I said exactly that to a mask lover on this very forum; he/she was incensed and accused me of spreading misinformation...
“Clearly, those East Asians refused to wear masks.”
Too busy eating each other.
Soooo...
What they’re saying is...
Lockdowns and mandatory masks for another 20,000 years while we “adapt” again?
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