{"id":7505,"date":"2020-06-12T14:38:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T21:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7505"},"modified":"2021-03-25T14:39:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T21:39:06","slug":"genetic-cluster-analysis-of-sars-cov-2-and-the-identification-of-those-responsible-for-the-major-outbreaks-in-various-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/12\/genetic-cluster-analysis-of-sars-cov-2-and-the-identification-of-those-responsible-for-the-major-outbreaks-in-various-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Genetic Cluster Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 and\u00a0the Identification of Those Responsible for the Major Outbreaks in Various Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"37\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Phylodynamic analysis of 247 genomic sequences available by early March identified four genetic clusters, defined as super-spreader\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">clusters<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(SSs), which were found to be responsible for the major outbreaks that followed. Ninety percent of an additional 1,539 genome sequences reported from early March onwards were found to belong to these SSs, with SS4 (responsible for the outbreak in Europe) being the most common (56%).\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Yang et al. (Dec 1, 2020). Genetic Cluster Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 and\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">the Identification of Those Responsible for the Major Outbreaks in Various Countries. Emerging Microbes &amp; Infections.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/22221751.2020.1773745\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/22221751.2020.1773745<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phylodynamic analysis of 247 genomic sequences available by early March identified four genetic clusters, defined as super-spreader\u00a0clusters\u00a0(SSs), which were found to be responsible for the major outbreaks that followed. Ninety percent of an additional 1,539 genome sequences reported from early March onwards were found to belong to these SSs, with SS4 (responsible for the outbreak&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/12\/genetic-cluster-analysis-of-sars-cov-2-and-the-identification-of-those-responsible-for-the-major-outbreaks-in-various-countries\/\">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":[21],"class_list":["post-7505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505","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=7505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7506,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505\/revisions\/7506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7505"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}