CrohnsChicago
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Here's an article I came across today. Pretty interesting:
Neanderthals suffered from psoriasis too: DNA study suggests ancient human cousins suffered from 'modern' diseases
Geneticists from the University at Buffalo studied ancient human DNA
They found genetic faults in the Neanderthal genome that cause psoriasis
Their DNA also had errors thought to cause Crohn's Disease in humans
Scientists believe the two diseases may have originated in a common ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans over a million years ago
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...s-suffered-modern-diseases.html#ixzz3QsyZSBdr