A selective sweep in the Spike gene has driven SARS-CoV-2 human adaptation
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.07.007
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the need to understand better animal-to-human transmission of coronaviruses and adaptive evolution within new hosts. We scanned over 182,000 SARS-CoV-2 genomes for selective sweep signatures and found a distinct footprint of… read more here.
Keywords: gene driven; selective sweep; spike gene; sars cov ... See more keywords