Omicron May Have Picked Up Gene From A Common Cold Virus

Omicron May Have Picked Up Gene From A Common Cold Virus

A pre-print study from nFerence has suggested that the increased transmissibility of the Omicron is due to a unique insertion that may have been picked up from a human coronavirus. Let's review.

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References
https://covid-19dashboard.news24.com/gauteng
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/south-africa
https://osf.io/f7txy/
https://www.nference.com/publications/YamgzBMAADIAxXym
https://biodatamining.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13040-021-00251-0
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-021-00523-5
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK554776/figure/article-52171.image.f5/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/290


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