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. 2021 Jul 8;17(7):e1009147. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009147

Table 1. SARS-CoV-2 proteins with a significantly different rate of mutations as compared to the corresponding background (set of non-structural proteins/set of structural and accessory proteins).

Protein name Genomic start position Genomic end position Length (nt.) No. of missense mutations Expected no. of missense mutations p-value q-value (FDR corrected)
Proteins under-mutated as compared to the background
nsp4 8555 10054 1500 770 885.71 4.20E-05 8.09E-05
nsp5 10055 10972 918 448 542.05 2.47E-05 5.12E-05
nsp8 12092 12685 594 307 350.74 1.71E-02 2.57E-02
nsp9 12686 13024 339 164 200.17 9.25E-03 1.47E-02
nsp10 13025 13441 417 196 246.23 9.12E-04 1.54E-03
nsp12 13442 16236 2796* 1283 1650.96 9.58E-24 6.46E-23
nsp13 16237 18039 1803 893 1064.62 1.86E-08 5.57E-08
membrane glycoprotein 26523 27191 669 318 523.7 1.44E-23 7.80E-23
surface glycoprotein 21563 25384 3822 2462 2991.87 1.54E-39 4.16E-38
Proteins over-mutated as compared to the background
nsp1 266 805 540 465 318.86 8.02E-15 3.61E-14
nsp2 806 2719 1914 1525 1130.17 7.06E-32 9.53E-31
nsp3 2720 8554 5835 3746 3445.41 2.52E-09 8.50E-09
nsp15 19621 20658 1038 718 612.91 2.16E-05 4.87E-05
Orf3a protein 25393 26220 828 907 648.16 2.99E-24 2.69E-23
Orf6 protein 27202 27387 186 173 145.6 2.36E-02 3.36E-02
Orf7a protein 27394 27759 366 396 286.51 3.70E-10 1.43E-09
Orf8 protein 27894 28259 366 379 286.51 8.65E-08 2.12E-07
nucleocapsid phosphoprotein 28274 29533 1260 1147 986.33 5.41E-08 1.46E-07
Orf14 protein 28734 28955 222 226 173.78 1.18E-04 2.13E-04

*contains a single additional nucleotide because of ribosomal slippage, see Genbank entry for MN908947.3