{"id":106111,"date":"2020-04-27T06:04:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T13:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/study-of-twins-reveals-genetic-effect-on-covid-19-symptoms"},"modified":"2020-04-27T06:04:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T13:04:55","slug":"study-of-twins-reveals-genetic-effect-on-covid-19-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/study-of-twins-reveals-genetic-effect-on-covid-19-symptoms","title":{"rendered":"Study of twins reveals genetic effect on Covid-19 symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-of-twins-reveals-genetic-effect-on-covid-19-symptoms2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The team then focused on data from just over 2,600 twins to try to establish whether the symptoms experienced by those predicted to have Covid-19 was related to genetic makeup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea was to basically look at the similarities in symptoms or non-symptoms between the identical twins, who share 100% of their genes, and the non-identical twins, who only share half of their genes,\u201d Prof Tim Spector, one of the scientists leading the endeavour, told the Guardian. \u201cIf there is a genetic factor in expressing the symptoms then we\u2019d see a greater similarity in the identical [twins] than the non-identical [twins] and that is basically what we showed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.04.22.20072124v1\" class=\"\">The study, which has not yet been peer reviewed<\/a>, took into account whether the twins were in the same household, with the results revealing that genetic factors explained about 50% of the differences between people\u2019s symptoms of Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team then focused on data from just over 2,600 twins to try to establish whether the symptoms experienced by those predicted to have Covid-19 was related to genetic makeup. \u201cThe idea was to basically look at the similarities in symptoms or non-symptoms between the identical twins, who share 100% of their genes, and the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}