Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

No evidence for increased transmissibility from recurrent mutations in SARS-CoV-2

  • Lucy van Dorp,
  • Damien Richard,
  • Cedric C. S. Tan,
  • Liam P. Shaw,
  • Mislav Acman,
  • François Balloux

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19818-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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SARS-CoV-2 has emerged recently and may still adapt to the human host. Here the authors show that none of the so far identified recurrent mutations in SARS-CoV-2 are significantly associated with increased viral transmission.