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CHeck out the figure in the other channel - 7-of 7 mutations seen in rodents are in Nu - that's unlikely....

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2021-11-26 09:04 Andrew Rambaut open

OK. Peeps. We are definitely considering the human->animal->human origins of Nu (as it may or may not be called).
2021-11-26 09:04 Andrew Rambaut open

Would be happy to work with you all on this.
2021-11-26 09:06 Andrew Rambaut open

We are currently looking for the closest potentially basal genome in humans but at the moment it definitely looks like being 2020. I am struggling to see how a that could be a chronic infection followed by transmission. I doubt an HIV patient would survive that long with a CoV infection doing all this shit.
2021-11-26 09:07 Andrew Rambaut open

A non-human host would also explain adaptation in the RBD to a different ACE-2? It may have antigenic consequences in humans but that is coincidental because it is the RBD
2021-11-26 09:07 Robert F. Garry

CHeck out the figure in the other channel - 7-of 7 mutations seen in rodents are in Nu - that's unlikely....
2021-11-26 09:08 Andrew Rambaut open

We are working with Tulio on this so I would prefer not to broaden it out too much.
2021-11-26 09:08 Robert F. Garry open

Oh yeah!
2021-11-26 09:09 Andrew Rambaut open

I got excited because the 679K mutation is also seen in C.1.2 (i.e., in South Africa) _but_ it is a different codon in Nuand doesn't have 681H so probably convergent
2021-11-26 09:09 Andrew Rambaut open

Back in the old Beta days we were discussing this critter:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genet_(animal)