HIV segments identified with India, Thailand and Kenya in Covid-19 receptor

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Grace Russell

Could you add a link to the paper plz?

Muhammad Yousuf

No point discussing a non-issue

The preprint of Pradhan et al. manuscript (1) was withdrawn before publication. Not known, why?

Another publications 2 days days later (2) had opposite conclusion.

1. Preprint Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike ...

2. Article HIV-1 did not contribute to the 2019-nCoV genome

Geoff Taylor

Yes, that is the one Mohammed. It appeared in the list of top reads shown on this page on the right.

Peter Bratt

I have read that the Pradhan et al. submission was withdrawn to make adjustments to the style of the wording used. "Uncanny", for instance may be considered somewhat emotive. As for the science, we shall have to wait for the re-submission.