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Parts of the HIV virus have been identified in it: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v1.full.pdf+html https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.
by erokar 7y ago
Parts of the HIV virus have been identified in it: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v1.full.pdf+html https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v1....
"Our analysis of the spike glycoprotein of 2019-nCoV revealed several interesting findings: First,
we identified 4 unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike glycoprotein that are not present in any
other coronavirus reported till date. To our surprise, all the 4 inserts in the 2019-nCoV mapped to
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short segments of amino acids in the HIV-1 gp120 and Gag among all annotated virus proteins in
the NCBI database. This uncanny similarity of novel inserts in the 2019- nCoV spike protein to
HIV-1 gp120 and Gag is unlikely to be fortuitous."
https://mobile.twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1223305946723704832 https://mobile.twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/122330594672370...
- drcode 7y agoOther people have written about the HIV-lookalike segment mentioned in that paper and believe it is likely due to chance https://twitter.com/HelenBranswell/status/1223361554495823872 https://twitter.com/HelenBranswell/status/122336155449582387...
- Aperocky 7y agoCan it be the jumped from bat to human happened in an immunocompromised individual with HIV?
- justinzollars 7y agoThis paper is not yet peer reviewed. I'm sure this claim will be studied exhaustively in the coming days/weeks.