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Levels of genetic diversity of SARS-CoV-2 virus: reducing speculations about the genetic variability of the virus in South America

Filho, C. B. d. N.; Ramos, R. d. S.; Paulino, A. J.; Venancio, D. B. R.; Felix, P. T.

2020-09-15 genetics
10.1101/2020.09.14.296491 bioRxiv
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In this work, we evaluated the levels of genetic diversity in 38 complete Genomes of SARS-CoV-2 from six countries in South America, using specific methodologies for paired FST, AMOVA, mismatch, demographic and spatial expansions, molecular diversity and for the time of evolutionary divergence. The analyses showed non-significant evolutionary divergences within and between the six countries, as well as a significant similarity to the time of genetic evolutionary divergence between all populations. Thus, it seems safe to affirm that we will find similar results for the other Countries of South America, reducing speculation about the existence of rapid and silent mutations that, although there are as we have shown in this work, do not increase, until this moment, the genetic variability of the Virus, a fact that would hinder the work with molecular targets for vaccines and drugs in general.

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