{"id":20592,"date":"2016-01-09T22:43:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T06:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/neanderthals-may-be-to-blame-for-your-allergies"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:16:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:16:30","slug":"neanderthals-may-be-to-blame-for-your-allergies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/neanderthals-may-be-to-blame-for-your-allergies","title":{"rendered":"Neanderthals may be to blame for your allergies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neanderthals-may-be-to-blame-for-your-allergies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wow \u2014 now, I know who to blame for my hay fever allergy.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If you want someone to thank for your immunity to a whole host of pathogens \u2014 or, someone to blame for your allergies \u2014 look no further than Neanderthals.<\/p>\n<p>Humans carry three important genes that hail from two ancient, human-like species: Neanderthals and Denisovans, both of which have been extinct for tens of thousands of years.<\/p>\n<p>The new finding, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/ajhg\/abstract\/S0002-9297%2815%2900486-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">published<\/a> Thursday in the American Journal of Human Genetics, points to a growing body of evidence of interbreeding between humans and other archaic species.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/neanderthals-may-be-to-blame-for-your-allergies-2016-1\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow \u2014 now, I know who to blame for my hay fever allergy. If you want someone to thank for your immunity to a whole host of pathogens \u2014 or, someone to blame for your allergies \u2014 look no further than Neanderthals. Humans carry three important genes that hail from two ancient, human-like species: Neanderthals [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20592","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20592"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68888,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20592\/revisions\/68888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}