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Recombination and low-diversity confound homoplasy-based methods to detect the effect of SARS-CoV-2 mutations on viral transmissibility
Elena E. Giorgi, Tanmoy Bhattacharya A, Will Fischer…·Bette Korber
The paper shows that recombination and low diversity reduce the sensitivity of homoplasy-based methods to detect increased transmissibility of the G614 SARS-CoV-2 variant.
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