bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.28.446065; this version posted May 30, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. Human genome integration of SARS-CoV-2 contradicted by long-read sequencing Nathan Smits1,10, Jay Rasmussen2,10, Gabriela O. Bodea1,2,10, Alberto A. Amarilla3,10, Patricia Gerdes1, Francisco J. Sanchez-Luque4,5, Prabha Ajjikuttira2, Naphak Modhiran3, Benjamin Liang3, Jamila Faivre6, Ira W. Deveson7,8, Alexander A. Khromykh3,9, Daniel Watterson3,9, Adam D. Ewing1, Geoffrey J. Faulkner1,2* 1Mater Research Institute - University of Queensland, TRI Building, Woolloongabba QLD 4102, Australia. 2Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072, Australia. 3School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072, Australia. 4GENYO, Pfizer-University of Granada-Andalusian Government Centre for Genomics and Oncological Research, PTS Granada 18016, Spain. 5MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer (IGC), University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, United Kingdom. 6INSERM, U1193, Paul-Brousse University Hospital, Hepatobiliary Centre, Villejuif 94800, France. 7Kinghorn Centre for Clinical Genomics, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney NSW 2010, Australia. 8St Vincent’s Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia. 9Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, Global Virus Network Centre of Excellence, Brisbane QLD 4072, Australia. 10These authors contributed equally. *Corresponding author:
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