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Mapping genome variation of SARS-CoV-2 worldwide highlights the impact of COVID-19 super-spreaders.
Genome research - 1 Oct 2020
Gómez-Carballa Alberto, Bello Xabier, Pardo-Seco Jacobo, Martinón-Torres Federico, Salas Antonio
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The human pathogen severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is responsible for the major pandemic of the twenty-first century. We analyzed more than 4700 SARS-CoV-2 genomes and associated metadata retrieved from public repositories. SARS-CoV-2 sequences have a high sequence identity (>99.9%), which drops to >96% when compared to bat coronavirus genome. We built a mutation-annotated reference...
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