High prevalence of an alpha variant lineage with a premature stop codon in ORF7a in Iraq, winter 2020–2021

• Nihad A. M. Al-Rashedi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: nhidaee@mu.edu.iq

  Affiliation Department of Biology, College of Science, Al-Muthanna University, Samawah, Iraq

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3480-343X

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• Hussein Alburkat,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7847-3762

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• Abas O. Hadi,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Health Administration, College of Health & Medical Technology, Sawa University, Samawah, Iraq, Department of Public Health, Al-Muthanna Health Directorate, Samawah, Iraq

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• Murad G. Munahi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Al-Muthanna University, Samawah, Iraq

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2144-0449

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• Ali Jasim,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Al-Muthanna Health Directorate, Samawah, Iraq

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• Alaa Hameed,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Health Administration, College of Health & Medical Technology, Sawa University, Samawah, Iraq

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• Basel Saber Oda,

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Al-Muthanna Health Directorate, Samawah, Iraq

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• Kareem Moamin Lilo,

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Directorate of Medical Affairs, Ministry of Health, Baghdad, Iraq

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• Laith A. H. AlObaidi,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biology, College of Science, Al-Muthanna University, Samawah, Iraq

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• Olli Vapalahti,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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• Tarja Sironen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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• Teemu Smura

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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