Large scale genomic analysis of 3067 SARS-CoV-2 genomes reveals a clonal geo-distribution and a rich genetic variations of hotspots mutations
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In late December 2019, an emerging viral infection COVID-19 was identified in Wuhan, China, and became a global pandemic. Characterization of the genetic variants of SARS-CoV-2 is crucial in following and evaluating it spread across countries. In this study, we collected and analyzed 3,067 SARS-CoV-2 genomes isolated from 55 countries during the first three months after the onset of this virus. Using comparative genomics analysis, we traced the profiles of the whole-genome mutations and compared the frequency of each mutation in the studied population. The accumulation of mutations during the epidemic period with their geographic locations was also monitored. The results showed 782 variant sites, of which 512 (65.47%) had a non-synonymous effect. Frequencies of mutated alleles revealed the presence of 38 recurrent non-synonymous mutations, including ten hotspot mutations with a prevalence higher than 0.10 in this population and distributed in six SARS-CoV-2 genes. The distribution of these recurrent mutations on the world map revealed certain genotypes specific to the geographic location. We also found co-occurring mutations resulting in the presence of several haplotypes. Moreover, evolution over time has shown a mechanism of mutation co-accumulation which might affect the severity and spread of the SARS-CoV-2.
On the other hand, analysis of the selective pressure revealed the presence of negatively selected residues that could be taken into considerations as therapeutic targets
We have also created an inclusive unified database ( http://genoma.ma/covid-19/ ) that lists all of the genetic variants of the SARS-CoV-2 genomes found in this study with phylogeographic analysis around the world.
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Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources The BAM files were sorted by SAMtools sort (9), then used to call the genetic variants in variant call format (VCF) by SAMtools mpileup (9) and bcftools v1.8 (9). SAMtoolssuggested: (SAMTOOLS, RRID:SCR_002105)The final call set of the 3067 genomes, was annotated and their impact was predicted using SnpEff v 4.3t (10). SnpEffsuggested: (SnpEff, RRID:SCR_005191)First, the SnpEff databases were built locally using annotations of the reference genome NC_045512.2 obtained in GFF format from the NCBI database. NCBIsuggested: (NCBI, RRID:SCR_006472)Phylogentic analysis and geodistribution: The … SciScore for 10.1101/2020.05.03.074567: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
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NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources The BAM files were sorted by SAMtools sort (9), then used to call the genetic variants in variant call format (VCF) by SAMtools mpileup (9) and bcftools v1.8 (9). SAMtoolssuggested: (SAMTOOLS, RRID:SCR_002105)The final call set of the 3067 genomes, was annotated and their impact was predicted using SnpEff v 4.3t (10). SnpEffsuggested: (SnpEff, RRID:SCR_005191)First, the SnpEff databases were built locally using annotations of the reference genome NC_045512.2 obtained in GFF format from the NCBI database. NCBIsuggested: (NCBI, RRID:SCR_006472)Phylogentic analysis and geodistribution: The downloaded full-length genome sequences of coronaviruses isolated from different hosts from public databases were subjected to multiple sequence alignments using Muscle v 3.8 ( Musclesuggested: (MUSCLE, RRID:SCR_011812)Maximum-likelihood phylogenetic trees with 1000 bootstrap replicates were constructed using RaxML v 8.2.12 (39)). RaxMLsuggested: (RAxML, RRID:SCR_006086)Selective pressure and modelling: We used Hyphy v2.5.8 (13) to estimate synonymous and non-synonymous ratio dN / dS (ω). Hyphysuggested: (HyPhy, RRID:SCR_016162)The selected nucleotide sequences of each dataset were aligned using Clustalw codon-by-codon and the phylogenetic tree was obtained using ML (maximum likelihood) available in MEGA X (14). Clustalwsuggested: (ClustalW, RRID:SCR_017277)MEGAsuggested: (Mega BLAST, RRID:SCR_011920)Structure visualization and image rendering were performed in PyMOL 2.3 (Schrodinger LLC). PyMOLsuggested: (PyMOL, RRID:SCR_000305)The strategy of best reciprocal BLAST results (18) was implemented to identify all of the orthologous genes using Proteinortho v6.0b (19) BLASTsuggested: (BLASTX, RRID:SCR_001653)Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
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