If You're Depressed Or You Can't Quit Smoking...
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2016 11:02 am
maybe you're just a little too Neanderthal...
https://www.rt.com/news/332244-dna-nean ... n-smoking/A whole range of health and psychological disorders, including depression and nicotine addiction, have been confirmed as relating the presence of Neanderthal genes in our DNA by US scientists.
The rigorous genome comparison is the first study of its kind.
It’s been known since 2010 that Eurasian genes may suffer from a series of health problems associated with Neanderthal DNA, after the fact of interbreeding with Homo sapiens was confirmed. But this was the first direct study of the two DNA types, undertaken by scientists at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee.
“Our main finding is that Neanderthal DNA does influence clinical traits in modern humans: We discovered associations between Neanderthal DNA and a wide range of traits, including immunological, dermatological, neurological, psychiatric and reproductive diseases,” senior author on the paper and evolutionary scientist John Capra said.