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[Andrew Rambaut] Test significance of being 1 base closer to RaTG13 - is it just chance? a reversion? [2021-03-27 17:05:26] [Kristian Andersen] Worth (possible?) to test if midpoint fits the early data best too? [2021-03-27 17:08:57] [Andrew Rambaut] I can't see anything obvious in that Tanzanian one - just lots of convergent stuff as you say. I assume they are 3 connected cases so probably some chronic case? [2021-03-27 17:56:26] [Kristian Andersen] It shares the early unique SNPs with e.g. WA1 and has a couple of additional 'ancestral' ones. Plus a bunch of private mutations. It looks to me like a very old lineage that turned into a chronic infection (in humans or possibly not) [2021-03-27 17:58:52] [Kristian Andersen] ... but it requires some proper phylogenetics - i might try some stuff. [2021-03-27 19:46:48] [Robert Garry] Putting this racist bullshit here because my guess is she deletes it: [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-03-27 19:57:43] [Robert Garry] Sorry - more archiving - ignore please [shared file(s): image.png, image.png] [2021-03-27 20:00:58] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-03-27 10:35:52] @Andrew Rambaut one for the time capsule - @Kristian Andersen we really do need to look for mo' bat covs [and human covs] in Africa. [2021-03-27 20:07:49] [Kristian Andersen] Totally lost it. Tone deaf. [2021-03-27 20:12:29] [Robert Garry] Actually, it's deeply offensive. Alina is totally without any shred of decency. I'm quite sure this violates several Broad policies. [2021-03-27 20:14:37] [Kristian Andersen] [thread - ID: 2021-03-27 10:35:52] @Andrew Rambaut We do.. [2021-03-27 20:15:17] [Kristian Andersen] Broad clearly doesn't give a flying fu** [2021-03-27 20:17:20]