{"id":3939,"date":"2020-01-29T12:15:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T20:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3939"},"modified":"2021-02-16T12:16:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T20:16:30","slug":"full-genome-evolutionary-analysis-of-the-novel-corona-virus-2019-ncov-rejects-the-hypothesis-of-emergence-as-a-result-of-a-recent-recombination-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/01\/29\/full-genome-evolutionary-analysis-of-the-novel-corona-virus-2019-ncov-rejects-the-hypothesis-of-emergence-as-a-result-of-a-recent-recombination-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Full-genome evolutionary analysis of the novel corona virus (2019-nCoV) rejects the hypothesis of emergence as a result of a recent recombination event"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Researchers in Greece aimed to characterize genetic relationships and to identify the presumed recombination within the sarbecovirus subgenus. Similar to other studies, they found around 96% similarity between 2019-nCoV and BatCoV RaTG13, associated with bats from Yunnan Province. Results indicate that this virus is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">not<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the result of a recent recombination event.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Results still point to bats as the likely origin.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paraskevis et al (Jan 27, 2020). Full-genome evolutionary analysis of the novel corona virus (2019-nCoV) rejects the hypothesis of emergence as a result of a recent recombination event. Pre-Print. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.01.26.920249\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.01.26.920249<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in Greece aimed to characterize genetic relationships and to identify the presumed recombination within the sarbecovirus subgenus. Similar to other studies, they found around 96% similarity between 2019-nCoV and BatCoV RaTG13, associated with bats from Yunnan Province. Results indicate that this virus is not the result of a recent recombination event.\u00a0\u00a0 Results still point&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/01\/29\/full-genome-evolutionary-analysis-of-the-novel-corona-virus-2019-ncov-rejects-the-hypothesis-of-emergence-as-a-result-of-a-recent-recombination-event\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[165],"class_list":["post-3939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-origins-reservoir-and-virus-background"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3940,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions\/3940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3939"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}