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S:A27S and S:R408S are defining mutations for XBB.1.16 on the current nextclade staging.
https://nextstrain.org/staging/nextclade/sars-cov-2/?label=clade:22F&s=XBB.1.16
Very few are having S:27A and 408R...
However usher seems to put every XBB.1.16 with S:27A. Is it a bug? @AngieHinrichs
It is because of branch-specific masking. The BA.2 branch (which BTW has BA.4 and BA.5 as descendants) has several ranges including 21633-21641 masked (after sequences are added to the tree; branch-specific masking doesn't happen when sequences are uploaded to the web interface) because assembly errors often make false substitutions in the deleted regions.
Since XBB's parents are both BA.2 sublineages (BJ.1==BA.2.10.1.1 and BM.1.1.1==BA.2.75.3.1.1.1), I think XBB should have the BA.2 deletions, but I have not looked at the sequences.
408S is a common reversion to reference artefact
Description Sub-lineage of: XBB.1.16 Earliest sequence: 2023-01-09 Most recent sequence: 2023-04-04 Countries: India, Singapore, USA, Canada .... Query in CovSpectrum: XBB.1.16* (Nextclade) + S:R408S, S:A27S Substitutions in the background of XBB.1.16: S:A27S S:R408S
Additional mutations and its month wise frequency in India:![Month_wise_mutations_calGISAID](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/130817449/232185162-8515eb45-7197-4369-b4b7-33dd3fb8a2ea.png)
Evidence:![XBB 1 16+S_R408S](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/130817449/232186770-031159dd-9d52-4242-99d1-92db28dd45f5.png)
https://cov-spectrum.org/explore/World/AllSamples/Past6M/variants?aaMutations=S%3AR408S%2CS%3AA27S&nextcladePangoLineage=xbb.1.16*&
Escape calculator:
https://jbloomlab.github.io/SARS2_RBD_Ab_escape_maps/escape-calc/
Existing mutation spectrum in the spike gene of XBB.1.16:
https://outbreak.info/compare-lineages?pango=XBB.1.16&gene=S&threshold=75&nthresh=1&dark=false
Identified genomes:
Mutation map image source: https://covdb.stanford.edu/