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ArticleScientific reports2021

Epidemiological associations with genomic variation in SARS-CoV-2.

Ali Rahnavard, Tyson Dawson, Rebecca Clement, Nathaniel Stearrett, Marcos Pérez-Losada, Keith A Crandall

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Ali RahnavardComputational Biology Institute, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA. rahnavard@gwu.edu.
Tyson DawsonComputational Biology Institute, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
Rebecca ClementComputational Biology Institute, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
Nathaniel StearrettComputational Biology Institute, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
Marcos Pérez-LosadaComputational Biology Institute, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
Keith A CrandallComputational Biology Institute, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.

Funding

National Science Foundation 2028280
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

SARS-CoV-2 (CoV) is the etiological agent of the COVID-19 pandemic and evolves to evade both host immune systems and intervention strategies. We divided the CoV genome into 29 constituent regions and applied novel analytical approaches to identify associations between CoV genomic features and epidemiological metadata. Our results show that nonstructural protein 3 (nsp3) and Spike protein (S) have the highest variation and greatest correlation with the viral whole-genome variation. S protein variation is correlated with nsp3, nsp6, and 3'-to-5' exonuclease variation. Country of origin and time since the start of the pandemic were the most influential metadata associated with genomic variation, while host sex and age were the least influential. We define a novel statistic-coherence-and show its utility in identifying geographic regions (populations) with unusually high (many new variants) or low (isolated) viral phylogenetic diversity. Interestingly, at both global and regional scales, we identify geographic locations with high coherence neighboring regions of low coherence; this emphasizes the utility of this metric to inform public health measures for disease spread. Our results provide a direction to prioritize genes associated with outcome predictors (e.g., health, therapeutic, and vaccine outcomes) and to improve DNA tests for predicting disease status.

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COVID-19Genome, ViralSARS-CoV-2Spike Glycoprotein, CoronavirusFemaleGenetic VariationHumansPhylogenyViral Nonstructural ProteinsSpike Glycoprotein, Coronavirusspike protein, SARS-CoV-2Viral Nonstructural Proteins

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PMID34837008
PMCPMC8626494

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