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"we downloaded the clinical information and vcf files available at https://doi org/10 5281/zenodo 5224640 ."

"and the code for calling mutations can be found in the github repository gz521_sars2 available at https://github com/yongsen-ruan/gz521_sars2 ."

"Conflict of interest statement. Authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"We thank three anonymous reviewers for many constructive comments to improve the article. The work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2021YFC2301300, 2023YFC3041500 to F.L., 2021YFC0863400), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32200493 to Y.R., 32293190, 32293193, and 2150006 to C.I.W., 81972691 to H.W., 92269108 to F.L.), Emergency Key Program of Guangzhou Laboratory (EKPG21-29 to X.T. and EKPG21-31 to F.L.), and Zhongnanshan Medical Foundation of Guangdong Province (No. ZNSA-2021004 to X.T.)."