Article
Genomic Perspectives on the Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant
2022-01-05
Abstract excerpt
A new variant of concern for SARS-CoV-2, Omicron (B.1.1.529), was designated by the World Health Organization on November 26, 2021. This study analyzed the viral genome sequencing data of 108 samples collected from patients infected with Omicron. First, we found that the enrichment efficiency of viral nucleic acids was reduced due to mutations in the region where the primers anneal to. Second, the Omicron variant...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 18f09405-9f35-5bc7-a1be-a1dd90041f10
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.01.05.474231
