Hunting Down Bad Genes

As people get closer to their age, their bodies are often exacerbated. Because the occasional knee replacement surgery and forced walking aid must be used, the heart also loses youthful vitality. This spiritual weakness is often associated with several diseases such as dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, rare Huntington's disease. Huntington's disease is a less well-known problem related not only to the loss of memory but also to the loss of muscle control.

And because something is bad for the people of today, it is not necessarily a bad thing for their hunting or gathering of their ancestors. In the modern world of fat-rich sugar candies, some genes may put their holders at risk of obesity. However, in the world where food is scarce (as it may be in latitude in the northern part of Hyundai and the Neanderthal region), these same genes may help owners throughout the poverty period. Neanderthal's DNA seems to expose modern people to the risk of certain malnutrition caused by deficiency of vitamin B essential for thiamine, carbohydrate metabolism. However, Dr. Simondi also stated that the same genetic variation might make it easier to digest fat. This tradeoff may be worth thousands of years ago when people get less energy from sophisticated carbohydrates. In a world where edible crops become staple food, it may not be the case

For the Vindija genome, researchers have tracked the Neanderthal DNA gene that makes certain modern humans more sensitive to rheumatoid arthritis, schizophrenia and eating disorders. Neanderthal mutations also occur in people's response to psychotropic drugs, levels of "bad" cholesterol and vitamin D, and genes that affect the amount of fat they pack in the middle. Of course, it is too easy to attribute cholesterol values ​​to their Neanderthal DNA. "Neanderthal DNA affects these characteristics, but the overall impact on a particular person's risk is certainly very low," Capra said. Nevertheless, the Neanderthal people are extinct, and this DNA has been exchanged tens of thousands of years ago, but there are still quite a few influences on contemporary humans.