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CELL REPORTS
Volume 38, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.110205
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- BGI
- Beijing Hospital Authority [DFL20191801]
- Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission [Z201100007920017, Z201100005420012]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [92053202, 22050003, 21873007]
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This study analyzes clinical samples from patients with COVID-19 and finds that genetic diversity increases in individuals after symptom onset. Nonsynonymous mutations are more common within individuals but less prevalent at the population level, suggesting a two-step fitness selection process. Dynamic changes in iSNVs among different populations indicate differences in the fitness selection process.
Spontaneous mutations introduce uncertainty into coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) control procedures and vaccine development. Here, we perform a spatiotemporal analysis on intra-host single-nucleotide variants (iSNVs) in 402 clinical samples from 170 affected individuals, which reveals an increase in genetic diversity over time after symptom onset in individuals. Nonsynonymous mutations are overrepresented in the pool of iSNVs but underrepresented at the single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) level, suggesting a two-step fitness selection process: a large number of nonsynonymous substitutions are generated in the host (positive selection), and these substitutions tend to be unfixed as SNPs in the population (negative selection). Dynamic iSNV changes in subpopulations with different gender, age, illness severity, and viral shedding time displayed a varied fitness selection process among populations. Our study highlights that iSNVs provide a mutational pool shaping the rapid global evolution of the virus.
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