Sequence similarity of SARS-CoV-2 and humans: Implications for SARS-CoV-2 detection

Detecting severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) needs human samples, which inevitably contain trace human DNA and RNA. Sequence similarity may cause invalid detection results; however, there is still a lack of gene similarity analysis of SARS-CoV-2 and humans. All publicly rep...

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Main Authors: Heng Li, Xiaoping Hong, Liping Ding, Shuhui Meng, Rui Liao, Zhenyou Jiang, Dongzhou Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2022.946359/full