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Slack / Private Message Drop, pp.281-282 [SLACK_000495] · slack_pm:msg:02925

Date: 2020-11-27 10:35
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recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes
speaker: Andrew Rambaut

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Pretty much sure the MRCA of all circulating viruses we have sample so far was one or other of the two original haplotypes. But seems likely to me that it came in to wuhan from somewhere else in China.

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2020-11-27 10:35 Andrew Rambaut

Pretty much sure the MRCA of all circulating viruses we have sample so far was one or other of the two original haplotypes. But seems likely to me that it came in to wuhan from somewhere else in China.
2020-11-27 10:36 Andrew Rambaut open

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2020-11-27 10:38 Kristian G. Andersen open

@Andrew Rambaut But that mid-point rooting though..?
2020-11-27 10:41 Kristian G. Andersen open

[desperately trying to find that old Tweet he sent to Oli... I will persevere!]
2020-11-27 10:42 Andrew Rambaut open

@Andrew Rambaut Could be something to touch on in the PO2. Some of the RBD mutations we have seen recently (eg mink) are actually reversions to the bat residues.

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