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RESPONSE TO CARLETTI ET AL., "ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF THE FIRST TWO SARS-COV-2 INFECTIONS IN ITALY: INFERENCE NOT SUPPORTED BY APPROPRIATE SEQUENCE ANALYSIS."
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University Campus Bio‐Medico of Rome. Unit of Medical Statistics and Molecular Epidemiology. Rome, Italy.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Flavivírus. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Flavivírus. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Instituto de Ciências Biológicas. Laboratório de Genética Celular e Molecular. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.
University Campus Bio‐ Medico of Rome. Unit of Medical Statistics and Molecular Epidemiology. Rome, Italy.
University Campus Bio‐Medico of Rome. Unit of Clinical Laboratory Science. Rome, Italy
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Flavivírus. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Flavivírus. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Instituto de Ciências Biológicas. Laboratório de Genética Celular e Molecular. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.
University Campus Bio‐ Medico of Rome. Unit of Medical Statistics and Molecular Epidemiology. Rome, Italy.
University Campus Bio‐Medico of Rome. Unit of Clinical Laboratory Science. Rome, Italy
Abstract
The first one, as the authors should know, that in order to estimate phylogenies on a natural timescale a ‘molecular clock’ analysis has to be applied. A molecular clock is a theory attributed to Emile Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling (1962), describing the relationship between observed genetic distances and time.
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