Closed JosetteSchoenma closed 2 years ago
Based on the table the new variant looks like a BA.5.3.1 that aquired 17207G, 17304T and N:P151S. It think it is difficult to discern whether N:P151S was aquired spontanously or trough recombination with BA.4?
Nucleotide 29868 is masked in the UCSC/UShER tree (first 55 and last 100 bases are masked as part of the Problematic Sites set), but anecdotally G29868A appears in a lot of BA.5 sequences (in a set of 287 early BA.5 sequences used to search for common mutations in BA.5, 251 had N at 29868, 33 had alt allele A and 3 had reference allele G, so A in 91% of non-N; not found in a set of 573 early BA.4 sequences). So it is interesting to see some 29868A's in the sequences in @JosetteSchoenma's sc2rf results.
There are also a couple BA.5.3.1 sequences with 17207G and 17304T, but without C28724T/N:P151S, SouthAfrica/NICD-N42661/2022|EPI_ISL_13048619|2022-05-10 and Northern_Ireland/NIRE-01d378/2022|2022-05-03 as shown in the UShER tree image.
So I'm leaning towards 'BA.5.3.1 that acquired C28724T/N:P151S independently'.
Interesting! I checked the smaller clusters I mentioned above, and both have no 29868A.
At least 48 samples now, instead of 17 22 days ago.
4 from last week (1st and 3rd of June) were uploaded from Denmark just now, of which 2 have an R (ambigious nucleotide, mix of A and G, I just learned) instead of G at A17207G. So, M_D3B instead of M_D3N.
There are 63 now. Most of them from the USA (55). It is too early to tell whether it would have a growth advantage over BA.5*. I guess for now is that it's just growing, because BA.5 is growing, but I am keeping an eye on it.
The amount of samples has gone up to 115, of which 105 from the USA. I have had CovSpectrum calculate growth advantage for the USA, using this query. It says 42% over BA.5.
Actually, Denmark has 33 now, of which many have G26529R instead of A, which I talked about a bit up.
22 of those 33 were uploaded to GISAID yesterday, and are not being found by the normal query with M:D3N. I use M_D3 to find them all on GISAID. M_D3B finds the ones with R. Most of those are from the 6th-10th of May, so very recent. I think it is growing fast there as well!
The screenshot contains all M_D3 plus N_P151S from Denmark, but you can see most resamble the sublinage of this issue.
Hi @JosetteSchoenma actually i can confirm this is the fastest sublineage circulating in my long list. @corneliusroemer could you give a look at this if i am not wrong?
So, because of the N_D3b and N_D3n situation, and because I am not able to put nucleotide mutations in GISAID, I queried for N_E136D, N_P151S, Spike_L452R, Spike1_F486V and M_D3. This gives 181 samples, of which 134 from the US, 36 from Denmark, 4 from South Africa, 3 from England, 2 from Israel and 1 from Luxembourg and 1 from Northern Ireland. Of which 85 with a collection date in June!
I made a graph in log-scale just for Denmark with the samples from the query, compared to basic BA.5, queried with just Spike_L452R, Spike1_F486V and M_D3.
Here you can see the raw numbers. Denmark has already sequenced 2719 samples for week 23. If only the 10th and 11th of May are calculated, the percentage is already 1,7% (13/785).
Unfortunately, somehow, I am not able to make a new Usher tree with these samples.
It is 419 samples now with S:L452R, S:F486V, M:D3, N:P151S and N:E136D. In 16 countries. 283 in the USA and 12 in Denmark, but for example also one in Australia and New Zealand, 2 in Mexico and 3 in Pakistan.
@JosetteSchoenma do every sequence in this lineage have M:D3B?
Sorry,I read incorrectly. Most have D3n, just many Danish ones have D3b.
Op zo 26 jun. 2022 13:33 schreef FedeGueli @.***>:
@JosetteSchoenma https://github.com/JosetteSchoenma do every sequence in this lineage have M:D3B?
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I changed the query to include the Danish M:D3B ones. 575 samples in total now https://cov-spectrum.org/explore/World/AllSamples/Past3M/variants?aaMutations=S%3AL452R%2CS%3AF486V%2CN%3AP151S%2CN%3AE136D&nucMutations=C1931A%2CA17207G%2CC17304T%2CG28681T&aaMutations1=S%3AL452R%2CS%3AF486V%2CM%3AD3N%2CN%3AP151S& Growth seems to be slowing down in Denmark. Growth advantage over BA.5* in Denmark 19% (-3-40%) and in the USA 32%(22-41%).
737 seqs as today. It slowed down a bit but still very fast one.
This seems to have been designated by someone as BE.3, as this lineage is listed as rooted at node_1649910 (on the 2022-06-30 tree) and defined by C28724T (N:P151S), and I think that's a match for the proposal here.
Thx very much @InfrPopGen !
No, the Danish often have N:D3b instead. Like their normal BA.5. Still not sure why that is.
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Description: A BA.5 with a BA.4 mutation (N:P151S/C28724T), 2 BA.5.3.1 mutations (ORF1a:Q566K/C1931A and N:E136D/G28681D) and 2 private mutations (A17207A and C17304T)
This 17 sample cluster came up, besides 2 other smaller clusters, after Raj Rajnarayanan made me aware of a rising number of 27 samples with both the BA.5 defining M:D3N and the BA.4 defining N:P151S mutation. I will keep an eye on the other 2 as well (1 also has the C1931A, but different private mutations), but this was the biggest one and with possible South African roots.
Earliest sequence: 2022/4/7 (South Africa) Most recent sequence: 2022/5/23 (USA) Countries circulating: South Africa, USA, England Likely breakpoint: between 27889 and 28724 (ORF7b, 9b or N). Cov-spectrum query: C1931A, A17207G, C17304T, G28681T + S:L452R, S:F486V, M:D3N, N:P151S, N:E136D https://cov-spectrum.org/explore/World/AllSamples/Past3M/variants?aaMutations=S%3AL452R%2CS%3AF486V%2CM%3AD3N%2CN%3AP151S%2CN%3AE136D&nucMutations=C1931A%2CA17207G%2CC17304T%2CG28681T&aaMutations1=S%3AL452R%2CS%3AF486V%2CM%3AD3N%2CN%3AP151S& Genomes: EPI_ISL_12300640 EPI_ISL_12952671 EPI_ISL_12401049 EPI_ISL_13072836 EPI_ISL_13062966 EPI_ISL_12903587 EPI_ISL_13074450 EPI_ISL_13070487 EPI_ISL_12779656 EPI_ISL_13071274 EPI_ISL_13080440 EPI_ISL_13060978 EPI_ISL_13071206 EPI_ISL_13071719 EPI_ISL_12917323 EPI_ISL_12568930 EPI_ISL_12903544 Evidence: Sc2rf output: ! The first 6 lines are random BA.4 and BA.5 samples as a reference
I made this table, which hopefully makes it a bit easier to understand how this cluster (new ???, 2nd column from the right) relates to the other variants.
Nextclade output: (all samples have green QC)
Usher tree: Notice that the earlier samples are on the right side of the tree.