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Ongoing global and regional adaptive evolution of SARS-CoV-2.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 20 Jul 2021
Rochman Nash D, Wolf Yuri I, Faure Guilhem, Mutz Pascal, Zhang Feng, Koonin Eugene V
Abstract excerpt
Understanding the trends in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) evolution is paramount to control the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyzed more than 300,000 high-quality genome sequences of SARS-CoV-2 variants available as of January 2021. The results show that the ongoing evolution of SARS-CoV-2 during the pandemic is characterized primarily by purifying selection, but a small set of sites...
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