The ongoing evolution of variants of concern and interest of SARS-CoV-2 in Brazil revealed by convergent indels in the amino (N)-terminal domain of the Spike protein

In addition to the already noted RDR regions, I think we are starting to see some more insertions in the spike protein. Here’s a link to a preprint I found that describes multiple lineages (some expanding) with different insertions in the same spike region: S 214-215.

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