SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.6 was the major contributor to early pandemic transmission in Malaysia

• Yoong Min Chong,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7004-1789

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• I-Ching Sam ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jicsam@ummc.edu.my (I-CS); chanyf@um.edu.my (YFC)

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1296-7898

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• Jennifer Chong,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• Maria Kahar Bador,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• Sasheela Ponnampalavanar,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• Sharifah Faridah Syed Omar,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4947-4878

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• Adeeba Kamarulzaman,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• Vijayan Munusamy,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1988-3520

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• Chee Kuan Wong,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8678-4664

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• Fadhil Hadi Jamaluddin,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• Yoke Fun Chan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jicsam@ummc.edu.my (I-CS); chanyf@um.edu.my (YFC)

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7089-0510

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