{"id":223900,"date":"2025-10-24T04:23:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/gene-variant-that-protects-against-norovirus-spread-with-arrival-of-agriculture-prehistoric-dna-reveals"},"modified":"2025-10-24T04:23:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:23:52","slug":"gene-variant-that-protects-against-norovirus-spread-with-arrival-of-agriculture-prehistoric-dna-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/gene-variant-that-protects-against-norovirus-spread-with-arrival-of-agriculture-prehistoric-dna-reveals","title":{"rendered":"Gene variant that protects against norovirus spread with arrival of agriculture, prehistoric DNA reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gene-variant-that-protects-against-norovirus-spread-with-arrival-of-agriculture-prehistoric-dna-reveals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The arrival of agriculture coincided with a sharp rise in a gene variant that protected against the virus that causes winter vomiting, researchers from Karolinska Institutet and Link\u00f6ping University report after analyzing DNA from over 4,300 prehistoric individuals and cultivating \u201cmini guts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Winter vomiting disease is caused by the norovirus, which is most virulent during the colder half of the year. The infection clears up after a couple of days, but the protection it provides is short-lived, meaning that the same person can repeatedly fall sick in a short space of time. But some people cannot succumb to the virus, thanks to a particular gene variant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to trace the historical spread of the gene variant,\u201d says Hugo Zeberg, senior lecturer in genetics at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, and researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The arrival of agriculture coincided with a sharp rise in a gene variant that protected against the virus that causes winter vomiting, researchers from Karolinska Institutet and Link\u00f6ping University report after analyzing DNA from over 4,300 prehistoric individuals and cultivating \u201cmini guts.\u201d Winter vomiting disease is caused by the norovirus, which is most virulent during [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223900","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}