[HN Gopher] Recovery of deleted deep sequencing data sheds light...
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Recovery of deleted deep sequencing data sheds light on early Wuhan
SARS-CoV-2 [pdf] (2021)
Author : Jimmc414
Score : 44 points
Date : 2022-03-07 17:59 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.biorxiv.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.biorxiv.org)
| wbryce wrote:
| So does the paper conclude that: 'It is not very likely that the
| Pandemic started in Wuhan Seafood Market'?
| thehappypm wrote:
| I think the main conclusion is that these deletions are highly,
| highly suspect.
| [deleted]
| cowvin wrote:
| "the progenitor of known SARS-CoV-2 sequences likely contained
| three mutations relative to the market viruses that made it
| more similar to SARS-CoV-2's bat coronavirus relatives."
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| So sort of. The virus existed somewhere before the versions
| sampled in the seafood market, yes. It's possible that it
| existed in the seafood market but was not sampled there.
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| There's no way to know where it first existed in humans without
| more information and the deletion of this early data is
| definitely suspicious.
| [deleted]
| micouay wrote:
| Note that it was published in June 2021.
| jlduan wrote:
| Nature News(at that time)
| https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01731-3
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| NYtimes: Those Virus Sequences That Were Suddenly Deleted?
| They're Back
| https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/science/coronavirus-seque...
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| Journal correction:
| https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.202104078
| mensetmanusman wrote:
| Great detective work. Will be interesting to hear why they were
| deleted...
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