TY - JOUR T1 - Genetic epidemiology of variants associated with immune escape from global SARS-CoV-2 genomes JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/2020.12.24.424332 SP - 2020.12.24.424332 AU - Bani Jolly AU - Mercy Rophina AU - Afra Shamnath AU - Mohammed Imran AU - Rahul C. Bhoyar AU - Mohit Kumar Divakar AU - Pallavali Roja Rani AU - Gyan Ranjan AU - Paras Sehgal AU - Pulala Chandrasekhar AU - S. Afsar AU - J. Vijaya Lakshmi AU - A. Surekha AU - Sridhar Sivasubbu AU - Vinod Scaria Y1 - 2020/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/12/26/2020.12.24.424332.abstract N2 - Many antibody and immune escape variants in SARS-CoV-2 are now documented in literature. The availability of SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences enabled us to investigate the occurrence and genetic epidemiology of the variants globally. Our analysis suggests that a number of genetic variants associated with immune escape have emerged in global populations.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest. ER -