People with first blood is the least susceptible to infection by the coronavirus SARS-CоV-2, the scientists found out of service on the human genome 23andMe. Conclusions of experts have appeared in June on the website of the company.
Experts analyzed data of 750 thousand customers, 10 million of them became infected with the coronavirus. After adjustment for gender, body weight and age, the researchers found that people with first blood in 9-18% less likely to become infected with coronavirus.
in addition, the experts analyzed the cases of infection with coronavirus among health care workers and others most at risk to get sick. It turned out that the coronavirus was detected in 3.2% of people with first blood, from 3.9 percent the second, 4% in the third and 4.1% in the fourth.
Thus, people from the first group were sick for 13-26% less.
This protective mechanism is characteristic for both positive and negative rhesus factor said”.ru”. Cause low risk contamination experts called the ABO gene.
3 June it was reported that physicians and molecular biologists from Europe explained the predisposition of the second group of blood to COVID-19. According to them, studies confirmed that carriers of the first group of blood infected with coronavirus less than a second. This may be due to blood clotting caused by mutations.
