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. 2022 Sep 7;10(5):e01219-22. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.01219-22

TABLE 3.

The 25 most significant mutations and their positions in SARS-CoV-2 genomes

No. Position Gene No. of sequencesa
1 241 5′ UTR 50,771
2 23403 Spike 50,229
3 3037 ORF1ab 50,121
4 14408 ORF1ab 49,840
5 25563 ORF3a 26,178
6 1059 ORF1ab 22,316
7 28881 Nucleocapsid 16,940
8 28883 Nucleocapsid 16,872
9 28882 Nucleocapsid 16,858
10 27964 ORF1ab 10,985
11 1163 ORF1ab 9,098
12 10319 ORF1ab 8,882
13 18555 ORF1ab 8,772
14 28869 Nucleocapsid 8,770
15 16647 ORF1ab 8,755
16 23401 Spike 8,746
17 7540 ORF1ab 8,729
18 18424 ORF1ab 8,758
19 28472 Nucleocapsid 8,572
20 21304 ORF1ab 8,320
21 25907 ORF3a 8,236
22 22992 Spike 8,146
23 19 5′ UTR 6,637
24 15 5′ UTR 5,662
25 13 5′ UTR 5,069
a

Number of genomic sequences in which the mutation in present.