Global dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 clades and their relation to COVID-19 epidemiology

Abstract Expansion of COVID-19 worldwide increases interest in unraveling genomic variations of novel SARS-CoV-2 virus. Metadata of 408,493 SARS-CoV-2 genomes submitted to GISAID database were analyzed with respect to genomic clades and their geographic, age, and gender distributions. Of the current...

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Main Authors: Samira M. Hamed, Walid F. Elkhatib, Ahmed S. Khairalla, Ayman M. Noreddin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-04-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-87713-x