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ArticleJournal of theoretical biology2021

Inverted repeats in coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 genome manifest the evolution events.

Changchuan Yin, Stephen S-T Yau

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Article in Journal of theoretical biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Changchuan YinDepartment of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607-7045, USA. Electronic address: cyin1@uic.edu.
Stephen S-T YauDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. Electronic address: yau@uic.edu.
Tsinghua University · CNUniversity of Illinois Chicago · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The world faces a great unforeseen challenge through the COVID-19 pandemic caused by coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. The virus genome structure and evolution are positioned front and center for further understanding insights on vaccine development, monitoring of transmission trajectories, and prevention of zoonotic infections of new coronaviruses. Of particular interest are genomic elements Inverse Repeats (IRs), which maintain genome stability, regulate gene expressions, and are the targets of mutations. However, little research attention is given to the IR content analysis in the SARS-CoV-2 genome. In this study, we propose a geometric analysis method and using the method to investigate the distributions of IRs in SARS-CoV-2 and its related coronavirus genomes. The method represents each genomic IR sequence pair as a single point and constructs the geometric shape of the genome using the IRs. Thus, the IR shape can be considered as the signature of the genome. The genomes of different coronaviruses are then compared using the constructed IR shapes. The results demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2 genome, specifically, has an abundance of IRs, and the IRs in coronavirus genomes show an increase during evolution events.

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COVID-19SARS-CoV-2Genome, ViralGenomicsHumansPandemicsPhylogeny2019-nCoVCoronavirusCOVID-19EvolutionGenomeInverted repeatPalindromeSARS-CoV-2

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PMID34478743
PMCPMC8406619
OpenAlexW3197364909

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