{"id":119800,"date":"2021-02-20T16:22:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T00:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/a-genetic-variant-you-may-have-inherited-from-neanderthals-reduces-the-risk-of-severe-covid-19"},"modified":"2021-02-20T16:22:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T00:22:16","slug":"a-genetic-variant-you-may-have-inherited-from-neanderthals-reduces-the-risk-of-severe-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/a-genetic-variant-you-may-have-inherited-from-neanderthals-reduces-the-risk-of-severe-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"A Genetic Variant You May Have Inherited From Neanderthals Reduces the Risk of Severe COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-genetic-variant-you-may-have-inherited-from-neanderthals-reduces-the-risk-of-severe-covid-19.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DNA variants passed on to modern humans from Neanderthals can increase as well as decrease our ability to fight SARS-CoV-2, a new PNAS study finds. New research has found that a group of genes that reduces the risk of developing severe COVID-19 by around 20% is inherited from Neanderthals Th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNA variants passed on to modern humans from Neanderthals can increase as well as decrease our ability to fight SARS-CoV-2, a new PNAS study finds. New research has found that a group of genes that reduces the risk of developing severe COVID-19 by around 20% is inherited from Neanderthals Th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119800","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\/119800","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\/575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}