{"id":3233,"date":"2021-01-14T11:50:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T19:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3233"},"modified":"2021-01-16T11:52:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T19:52:19","slug":"emergence-and-evolution-of-a-prevalent-new-sars-cov-2-variant-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/14\/emergence-and-evolution-of-a-prevalent-new-sars-cov-2-variant-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergence and Evolution of a Prevalent New SARS-CoV-2 Variant in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[pre-print, not peer reviewed] <\/i>Genomic virus surveillance has identified one of the most prevalent SARS-CoV-2 variants in the US, referred to as 20C-US. Earliest 20C-US genomes have been traced in the southern US as early as late May. 20C-US has acquired up to 7 non-synonymous mutations with implications for efficient and accurate virus production, including a Q677H mutation in the spike protein. The authors predict that 20C-US may be the most dominant variant in the US.<\/p>\n<p><i>Pater et al. (Jan 13, 2021). Emergence and Evolution of a Prevalent New SARS-CoV-2 Variant in the United States. Pre-print downloaded Jan 14 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2021.01.11.426287v1\">https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2021.01.11.426287v1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[pre-print, not peer reviewed] Genomic virus surveillance has identified one of the most prevalent SARS-CoV-2 variants in the US, referred to as 20C-US. Earliest 20C-US genomes have been traced in the southern US as early as late May. 20C-US has acquired up to 7 non-synonymous mutations with implications for efficient and accurate virus production, including&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/14\/emergence-and-evolution-of-a-prevalent-new-sars-cov-2-variant-in-the-united-states\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[80,38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-3233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-genomics","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3234,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions\/3234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3233"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}