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ArticlemLife2022

Massive-scale genomic analysis reveals SARS-CoV-2 mutation characteristics and evolutionary trends.

Yamin Sun, Min Wang, Wenchao Lin, Wei Dong, Jianguo Xu

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Article in mLife, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 authors.

Yamin SunResearch Institute of Public Health Nankai University Tianjin China.ORCID 0000-0002-8576-6747
Min WangTEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Nankai University Tianjin China.ORCID 0000-0003-1835-167X
Wenchao LinEngineering and Research Center for Microbial Functional Genomics and Detection, Ministry of Education Nankai University Tianjin China.ORCID 0000-0003-2158-6680
Wei DongEngineering and Research Center for Microbial Functional Genomics and Detection, Ministry of Education Nankai University Tianjin China.
Jianguo XuResearch Institute of Public Health Nankai University Tianjin China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic resulted in significant societal costs. Hence, an in-depth understanding of SARS-CoV-2 virus mutation and its evolution will help determine the direction of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, we identified 296,728 de novo mutations in more than 2,800,000 high-quality SARS-CoV-2 genomes. All possible factors affecting the mutation frequency of SARS-CoV-2 in human hosts were analyzed, including zinc finger antiviral proteins, sequence context, amino acid change, and translation efficiency. As a result, we proposed that when adenine (A) and tyrosine (T) bases are in the context of AM (M stands for adenine or cytosine) or TA motif, A or T base has lower mutation frequency. Furthermore, we hypothesized that translation efficiency can affect the mutation frequency of the third position of the codon by the selection, which explains why SARS-CoV-2 prefers AT3 codons usage. In addition, we found a host-specific asymmetric dinucleotide mutation frequency in the SARS-CoV-2 genome, which provides a new basis for determining the origin of the SARS-CoV-2. Finally, we summarize all possible factors affecting mutation frequency and provide insights into the mutation characteristics and evolutionary trends of SARS-CoV-2.

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de novo mutationevolutionary trendsmutation characteristicsmutation frequencySARS‐CoV‐2

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PMCPMC9538474

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