Table 4.
Group | No./total no. (%) |
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Defective viruses |
Variable sitesa |
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Indels | Stop codons | 1st and 2nd codon position | 3rd codon position | |
All clones | 90/915 (9.8%) | 39/915 (4.3%) | 217/283 (76.7%) | 121/142 (85.2%) |
Founder sequences | 1/55 (1.8%) | 0/55 (0%) | 19/283 (6.7%) | 32/142 (22.5%) |
Among apparently nondefective viral sequences.