Within-patient genetic diversity of SARS-CoV-2
Jack Kuipers, Aashil A. Batavia, Kim Philipp Jablonski, Fritz Bayer, Nico Borgsmüller, Arthur Dondi, Monica-Andreea Baciu-Drăgan, Pedro Ferreira, Katharina Jahn, Lisa Lamberti, Martin Pirkl, Susana Posada-Céspedes, Ivan Topolsky, Ina Nissen, Natascha Santacroce, , Niko Beerenwinkel
The paper examines SARS-CoV-2 genetic diversity within individual patients, finding that a small number of patients carry most of the diversity and that older patients tend to have more diverse viral variants.
bioRxiv · Oct 12, 2020 · PreprintGenomics