Exploring Diversity of COVID‑19 Based on Substitution Distance.
Yi-Hau ChenHsiuying WangPublished in: Infection and drug resistance (2020)
The magnitude of nucleotide substitution distance of SARS-CoV-2 is closely related to the transmission time order of SARS-CoV-2. This outcome reveals that the nucleotide substitution distance of SARS-CoV-2 may be used to infer the origin of COVID-19.