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Current Mutatome Of Sars-Cov-2 In Turkey Reveals Mutations Of Interest, Doğa Eski̇er, Evren Akalp, Özlem Dalan, Gökhan Karakülah, Yavuz Oktay Jan 2021

Current Mutatome Of Sars-Cov-2 In Turkey Reveals Mutations Of Interest, Doğa Eski̇er, Evren Akalp, Özlem Dalan, Gökhan Karakülah, Yavuz Oktay

Turkish Journal of Biology

As the underlying pathogen for the COVID-19 pandemic that has affected tens of millions of lives worldwide, SARS-CoV-2 and its mutations are among the most urgent research topics worldwide. Mutations in the virus genome can complicate attempts at accurate testing or developing a working treatment for the disease. Furthermore, because the virus uses its own proteins to replicate its genome, rather than host proteins, mutations in the replication proteins can have cascading effects on the mutation load of the virus genome. Due to the global, rapidly developing nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, local demographics of the virus can be difficult …