Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

February 5, 2020

Genomic variance of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus

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  • A phylogenetic analysis including 2019-nCoV, SARS-CoV and bat CoVs found evidence of the evolutionary link between bat and bat/SARS-CoV-like viruses and 2019-nCoV, with bat/Yunnan/RaTG13/2013 as a potential most-recent ancestor. Additional epitope identification is also presented.

Ramaiah A and Arumugaswami V (Jan 30, 2020). Genomic variance of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus. Pre-Print downloaded on 5 Feb, 2020 from, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.29.925867v2