Profiling SARS-CoV-2 mutation fingerprints that range from the viral pangenome to individual infection quasispecies

BT Lau, D Pavlichin, AC Hooker, A Almeda, G Shin… - Genome medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background The genome of SARS-CoV-2 is susceptible to mutations during viral replication
due to the errors generated by RNA-dependent RNA polymerases. These mutations enable …

Characterization of intra-host SARS-CoV-2 variants improves phylogenomic reconstruction and may reveal functionally convergent mutations

D Ramazzotti, F Angaroni, D Maspero… - 2020 - pesquisa.bvsalud.org
We introduce VERSO, a two-step framework for the characterization of viral evolution from
sequencing data of viral genomes, which improves over phylogenomic approaches for …

SARS-CoV-2 genome sequencing methods differ in their abilities to detect variants from low-viral-load samples

C Lam, K Gray, M Gall, R Sadsad, A Arnott… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) genomic surveillance has
been vital in understanding the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the …

Improved SARS-CoV-2 sequencing surveillance allows the identification of new variants and signatures in infected patients

A Grimaldi, F Panariello, P Annunziata, T Giuliano… - Genome Medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background Genomic surveillance of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) is the only approach to rapidly monitor and tackle emerging variants of …

Temporal dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 mutation accumulation within and across infected hosts

AL Valesano, KE Rumfelt, DE Dimcheff, CN Blair… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genetic diversity within infected hosts can provide insight into the
generation and spread of new viral variants and may enable high resolution inference of …

Mapping genome variation of SARS-CoV-2 worldwide highlights the impact of COVID-19 super-spreaders

A Gómez-Carballa, X Bello, J Pardo-Seco… - Genome …, 2020 - genome.cshlp.org
The human pathogen severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is
responsible for the major pandemic of the twenty-first century. We analyzed more than 4700 …

Sequence analysis of 20,453 SARS-CoV-2 genomes from the Houston Metropolitan Area identifies the emergence and widespread distribution of multiple isolates of …

SW Long, RJ Olsen, PA Christensen, S Subedi… - MedRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
Since the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, there has been international concern
about the emergence of virus variants with mutations that increase transmissibility, enhance …

COVID-19 infection and transmission includes complex sequence diversity

ER Chan, LD Jones, M Linger, JD Kovach… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
SARS-CoV-2 whole genome sequencing has played an important role in documenting the
emergence of polymorphisms in the viral genome and its continuing evolution during the …

[HTML][HTML] Role of SARS-CoV-2 mutations in the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic

P Colson, H Chaudet, J Delerce, P Pontarotti… - Journal of Infection, 2024 - Elsevier
Summary Objectives The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and large-scale genomic surveillance
provided an exceptional opportunity to analyze mutations that appeared over three years in …

Multiple mutations associated with emergent variants can be detected as low-frequency mutations in early SARS-CoV-2 pandemic clinical samples

J Kimbrel, J Moon, A Avila-Herrera, JM Martí, J Thissen… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Genetic analysis of intra-host viral populations provides unique insight into pre-emergent
mutations that may contribute to the genotype of future variants. Clinical samples positive for …