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If You Have This Blood Type, You re at a High Risk of Severe COVID
By Zachary Mack of Best Life |
If You Have This Blood Type, You re at a High Risk of Severe COVID
It s not just your habits or pre-existing conditions that determine how you d respond to the novel coronavirus if you were to contract it. The makeup of your molecular building blocks has a major effect on how severe your illness could be and research has shown that your blood type could be one of these key genetic indicators. Recently, a new study confirmed earlier reports that
The findings come on the heels of continued research from the GenOMICC Consortium, an international association of scientists that study the connections between severe illnesses and genes. These scientists compared the genes of more than 2,000 COVID-19 patients in Great Britain with those of healthy people,
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This summer, a small group of researchers at the Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, began to notice something unusual. They were looking at the DNA of thousands of people who had contracted Covid-19 and suffered severely – people who were touch-and-go in intensive care units, some who survived and some who didn’t.
The researchers were comparing these genetic profiles to those of people with similar backgrounds held in the UK BioBank, which holds information on half a million volunteers. The aim was to see if anything stood out in those who had been brought to the brink by Covid.