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SARS-CoV-2 saltational events are recurrent and trace to persistent human infections

2026-06-19

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SARS-CoV-2 evolution is characterized by gradual mutation accumulation but has been punctuated by rare yet impactful highly mutated variants. Whether such saltational jumps are a broad feature of SARS-CoV-2 evolution or rare anomalies remains unclear. We systematically investigate SARS-CoV-2 saltational evolution by developing a scalable framework to detect saltational events from 4.4 million high-quality viral ge...

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Literature Corpus work: 3178ea83-490a-516b-bd68-7485890f061a
DOI: 10.64898/2026.06.18.733214

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