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Scientists looking at the evolution of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, have found that since December 2019 – and for the first 11 months of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic – there has been very little ‘important’ genetic change observed in the hundreds of thousands of sequenced virus genomes.
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The study – published in PLOS Biology and led by the University of Glasgow and Temple University, Philadelphia – suggests that while there have been some changes (such as the D614G mutation which was found to moderately enhance transmissibility), most changes have been ‘neutral’ evolutionary processes.
The research a collaboration between researchers in the UK, US and Belgium – involved scientists at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR), Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine, Temple University, Rega Institute, KU Leuven and Pennsylvania State University, who were able to turn their experience of analysing dat
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