Statistical challenges in the analysis of sequence and structure data for the COVID-19 spike protein

01/06/2021
by   Shiyu He, et al.
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As the major target of many vaccines and neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, the spike (S) protein is observed to mutate over time. In this paper, we present statistical approaches to tackle some challenges associated with the analysis of S-protein data. We build a Bayesian hierarchical model to study the temporal and spatial evolution of S-protein sequences, after grouping the sequences into representative clusters. We then apply sampling methods to investigate possible changes to the S-protein's 3-D structure as a result of commonly observed mutations. While the increasing spread of D614G variants has been noted in other research, our results also show that the co-occurring mutations of D614G together with S477N or A222V may spread even more rapidly, as quantified by our model estimates.

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