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Coronavirus Mutations: What We’ve Learned So Far – ScienceAlert

In early January, the first genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes COVID-19 – was released under the moniker “Wuhan-1”.

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In early January, the first genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2 the virus that causes COVID-19 was released under the moniker “Wuhan-1”.
This string of 30,000 letters (the A, T, C and Gs of the genetic code) marked day one in the race to understand the genetics of this newly discovered coronavirus.
Now, a further 100,000 coronavirus genomes sampled from COVID-19 patients in over 100 countries have joined Wuhan-1. Geneticists around the world are mining the data for answers.
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