Evaluating the Effects of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Mutation D614G on Transmissibility and Pathogenicity.
Erik Volz,
Verity Hill,
John T McCrone,
Anna Price,
David Jorgensen,
Áine O'Toole,
Joel Southgate,
Robert Johnson,
Ben Jackson,
Fabricia F Nascimento,
Sara M Rey,
Samuel M Nicholls,
Rachel M Colquhoun,
Ana da Silva Filipe,
James Shepherd,
David J Pascall,
Rajiv Shah,
Natasha Jesudason,
Kathy Li,
Ruth Jarrett,
Nicole Pacchiarini,
Matthew Bull,
Lily Geidelberg,
Igor Siveroni,
COG-UK Consortium,
Ian Goodfellow,
Nicholas J Loman,
Oliver G Pybus,
David L Robertson,
Emma C Thomson,
Andrew Rambaut,
Thomas R Connor
Jan 12, 2021
Global dispersal and increasing frequency of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein variant D614G are suggestive of a selective advantage but may also be due to a random founder effect. We investigate the hypothesis for positive selection...