{"id":115476,"date":"2020-11-05T13:23:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T21:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/data-analysis-identifies-the-mother-of-all-sars-cov-2-genomes"},"modified":"2020-11-05T13:23:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T21:23:31","slug":"data-analysis-identifies-the-mother-of-all-sars-cov-2-genomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/data-analysis-identifies-the-mother-of-all-sars-cov-2-genomes","title":{"rendered":"Data analysis identifies the \u2018mother\u2019 of all SARS-CoV-2 genomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/data-analysis-identifies-the-mother-of-all-sars-cov-2-genomes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the field of molecular epidemiology, the worldwide scientific community has been sleuthing to solve the riddle of the early history of SARS-CoV-2.<\/p>\n<p>Since the first SARS-CoV-2 virus infection was detected in December 2019, tens of thousands of its genomes have been sequenced worldwide, revealing that the coronavirus is mutating, albeit slowly, at a rate of 25 <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/mutations\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">mutations<\/a> per <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/genome\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">genome<\/a> per year.<\/p>\n<p>But despite major efforts, no one to date has identified the first case of human transmission, or \u201cpatient zero\u201d in the COVID-19 pandemic. Finding such a case is necessary to better understand how the virus may have jumped from its animal host first to infect humans as well as the history of how the SARS-CoV-2 <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/viral+genome\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">viral genome<\/a> has mutated over time and spread globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the field of molecular epidemiology, the worldwide scientific community has been sleuthing to solve the riddle of the early history of SARS-CoV-2. Since the first SARS-CoV-2 virus infection was detected in December 2019, tens of thousands of its genomes have been sequenced worldwide, revealing that the coronavirus is mutating, albeit slowly, at a rate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}