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Response to comment on “genetic variants and source of introduction of SARS‐CoV‐2 in South America”
Author(s) -
Poterico Julio A.,
Mestanza Orson
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of medical virology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1096-9071
pISSN - 0146-6615
DOI - 10.1002/jmv.26359
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , phylogenetic tree , virology , biology , genealogy , genetics , computational biology , evolutionary biology , history , medicine , gene , outbreak , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
During a pandemic, science needs data to generate helpful evidence, and researchers assume this responsibility despite the risk of potential bias. This is the response to the comment made by Pedro Romero, who argued that our manuscript did not use reassembling and mapping strategies for corroborating mutations, and lacked bootstrap support in the phylogenetic analysis.