11 - medicine Flashcards
original malaria variant likely zoonotic from …
gorillas (but now it goes both ways)
____ gene found around Africa for malaria resistance …
DUFFY NEGATIVE
Oh Duffy, you’re so positive!
No! Duffy is very negative.
Indig were immunologically naive in North America
NAH. Not at all. They had adaptations to other things. But for whatever reasons these people, with these adaptations, were somehow more vulnerable to the White man’s viruses. (HLA-DQA! - present in older Tsimshan, not present day)
Indig lacked HLA genes due to
bottlenecks
Modern humans interbreed with Neanderthal?
No. “INTROGRESSION”
What preserves bacteria? Slimy.
Amber.
What can preserve environmental DNA?
soil
What is key to viral load tolerance / carrying limit?
population density. The more, the longer.
EXAM: Epigenetic inheritance comes from …
METHYLATION.
