The piece of genome that the study found is responsible for the infection is common in those living in Bangladesh. Germany's Max Planck Institute, Japan's Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, and Sweden's Karolinska Institute are affiliated with the project. About 60,000 years ago, some ancestors of modern humans expanded out of Africa and swept across Europe, Asia and Australia. Most Neanderthal genes turned out to be harmful to modern humans. As a result, Neanderthal genes became rarer, and many disappeared from our gene pool.

Source: Dhaka Tribune July 06, 2020 03:33 UTC