Question for viral genomic experts - in this comparison of two SARS genomes, is the region marked by me with a blue box expected to be so repetitive? Is there a large genomic repeat in the human Wuhan strain?pic.twitter.com/bWv8QoiS96
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Highly repetitive regions are frequent and can give sequences that align almost perfectly (or are off by 1-2%). That being said to me it’s not a great way of presenting the data in that context and I don’t have BLAST+aligner handy to check the claim itself.
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