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ArticleBioTechniques2023

SARS-CoV-2 spike gene Sanger sequencing methodology to identify variants of concern.

Fatimah S Alhamlan, Dana M Bakheet, Marie F Bohol, Madain S Alsanea, Basma M Alahideb, Faten M Alhadeq, Feda A Alsuwairi, Maha A Al-Abdulkareem, Mohamed S Asiri, Reem S Almaghrabi and 4 more

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Article in BioTechniques, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. SpikeID: Rapid and unbiased identification of SARS-CoV-2 variants by spike sequencing.Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Fatimah S AlhamlanDepartment of Infection & Immunity, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, 11211, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-1765-4310
Dana M BakheetCollege of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, 11211, Saudi Arabia.
Marie F BoholDepartment of Infection & Immunity, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, 11211, Saudi Arabia.
Madain S AlsaneaDepartment of Infection & Immunity, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, 11211, Saudi Arabia.
Basma M AlahidebDepartment of Infection & Immunity, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, 11211, Saudi Arabia.
Faten M AlhadeqDepartment of Infection & Immunity, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, 11211, Saudi Arabia.
Feda A AlsuwairiDepartment of Infection & Immunity, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, 11211, Saudi Arabia.
Maha A Al-AbdulkareemDepartment of Infection & Immunity, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, 11211, Saudi Arabia.
Mohamed S AsiriDepartment of Infection & Immunity, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, 11211, Saudi Arabia.
Reem S AlmaghrabiOrgan Transplant Center of Excellence, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, 11211, Saudi Arabia.
Sarah A AltamimiDepartment of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, 11211, Saudi Arabia.
Maysoon S MutabaganiDepartment of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, 11211, Saudi Arabia.
Sahar I AlthawadiDepartment of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, 11211, Saudi Arabia.
Ahmed A Al-QahtaniDepartment of Infection & Immunity, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, 11211, Saudi Arabia.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The global demand for rapid identification of circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern has led to a shortage of commercial kits. Therefore, this study aimed to develop and validate a rapid, cost-efficient genome sequencing protocol to identify circulating SARS-CoV-2 (variants of concern). Sets of primers flanking the SARS-CoV-2 spike gene were designed, verified and then validated using 282 nasopharyngeal positive samples for SARS-CoV-2. Protocol specificity was confirmed by comparing these results with SARS-CoV-2 whole-genome sequencing of the same samples. Out of 282 samples, 123 contained the alpha variant, 78 beta and 13 delta, which were indicted using in-house primers and next-generation sequencing; the numbers of variants found were 100% identical to the reference genome. This protocol is easily adaptable for detection of emerging variants during the pandemic.

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COVID-19DNA PrimersHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansMutationSARS-CoV-2DNA Primersalphabetadeltagenomic surveillanceoligonucleotide synthesisPCRSanger sequencingSARS-CoV-2VOCs

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PMID36794696
PMCPMC9937032

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