Neanderthal Gene Probably Caused Up To A Million Covid Deaths

[Ninurta]

Huh.

I was told it was a Neanderthal gene I have that gave me my immunity!

We both caught the covid, and neither of us knew it until tested. Never showed any signs or symptoms at all, and it if weren't for a covid virus found in a ball of snot from the back side of our brains via a torture device that looked like one of those foot-long Q-tips that I use to clean guns with, we'd have never had any indication at all.

They said that mutation was about 50,000 years old and originally found in Neanderthals.

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I am Heinz 67. I have so many genes, from so many places, that if I would allow them to test me, I would probably be found to be not of this Earth.

I keep asking my Mother to come clean, and confess that my Father was an alien.

Every human on Earth is.

If you go back between 7 and 10 generations, some genes get crowded out and drop off the radar - We only have so much genetic space to carry so many genes. Every generation, half comes from one parent and half from the other, so you lose half of each parents genes in every generation. When that's carried back far  enough, some genes fall off your genetic code altogether.

Additionally, mathematically speaking, you reach a point if you go far enough back that you have more ancestors in a generation than there were people on Earth, meaning that beyond that point, some ancestors will show up multiple times in your tree,

So, yeah, we're all mutts, and if you go far enough back, we're all inbred, too.

It's all part of being a human.

I tried to reconstruct my Dear Old Dad's genome, because he was never tested. That was an exercise in mathematics, too, and I got stuck at about 75% of his genome. The math works like this: I got half of my dad's DNA, and half of my mom's DNA. So I take my genome, and my mom's genome (because she was tested), and I "phase" mine with hers - that sorts out which of my DNA came from her, and which came from pa. So there I have 50% of his genome. Then I took one of my sisters' DNA, phased that against moms, and got another 50% file. Now those two 50% files will have some overlap, and some unique DNA. So you add them all together and sort of the same copies, only keeping one for Dear Old Dad's genome. On average, every child you add will add a diminishing percent of DNA that is unique and not found in the other kids - 50%, then another 25% (half of 50), then another 12.5% from the third child (half of 25), then another 6.25% from the fourth child, and so on. So you can never get a 100% reconstruction (theoretically), but with enough kids, you can get close. So I got stuck at 75% because just myself and one of my sisters were bold enough to get tested. The other two sisters and my half brother were too paranoid to get tested, and I doubt his ma has been tested, either, so the phasing of his DNA would be hit or miss, anyhow, since I wouldn't have hers to phase his against to sort out pa's DNA. Theoretically, I could reconstruct 96.9% of his genome if everyone were cooperative, but they ain't, so I get what I got.

Different companies test for different SNP's too, so no one company gets your entire genome when they test. I've been tested by two companies, so I took all my raw DNA from both, and merged them together, keeping only one copy for every SNP that both tested for, and came up with a more complete DNA profile which was almost twice as large as either one separately. That's the one I use in genealogical testing, and it makes a difference. For example, neither caught my match to Cheddar Man from mesolithic England by itself, but the combined file did. No telling what I might find if I merged in data from another company or two - I might be my own grandpa!

But we are all mutts. I have DNA from England, Ireland, Scotland, Scandinavia, America, the Balkans, and surprisingly, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Nigeria. I have DNA going back to the England of 9000 years ago - long before there even was an England - the Vindija Neanderthal and the Altai Neanderthal. Ain't none of us purebred show dogs. None of us.

We are all Heinz 57 if we dig deep enough.


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