Only northern Russian women can save Georgians from AIDS
20% of Russians have mutations that make these people immune to HIV infection, while no such mutations have been found in Georgians.
This was stated in an interview with Izvestia by Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chief Researcher of the Department of Genomic Medicine of the Research Institute of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductology (AGiR) named after. BEFORE. Otta, chief specialist of St. Petersburg and the North-West region of the Russian Federation in medical genetics Vladislav Baranov.
According to him, just as there is immunity in certain people to HIV, there may also be immunity to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
The scientist said that in the early 2000s he carried out joint work with the Americans, in particular, they looked for a mutation in Russians that determines resistance to HIV infection.
“Then we found that in our population, about 20% of individuals carry this mutation. They do not have CCR5, a protein without which HIV cannot enter the body. As we moved south, studying our population, the number of carriers of these mutations gradually decreased. But we didn’t find it among the Georgians at all.
And then, I remember, in one interview the correspondent asked me: “How can we help the Georgians?” I replied: “Only Russian women from the north can help by marrying them and having children. This way, the saturation of the Georgian genome with mutation will gradually increase, which will make them immune to HIV,” Baranov said.
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