Complete genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 strains: A pilot survey in Palestine reveals spike mutation H245N

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Table 1 Genetic diversity and neutrality tests of the three probable clusters of the SARS-CoV-2 genomes included in the pilot survey

	Haplotype- nucleotide diversity							Neutrality tests
Cluster	n	h	Eta	Hd ± SD	π ± SD	K	S	Tajima’s D	Fu-Li’s F
Cluster-I	17	17	120	1.00 ± 0.002	0.0007 ± 0.0	17.96	118	− 2.11*	− 2.74*
Cluster-II	7	7	91	1.00 ± 0.009	0.001 ± 0.00	30.09	91	− 1.11	− 1.17
Cluster-III	18	16	83	0.98 ± 0.000	0.0007 ± 0.0	13.56	83	− 1.83*	− 2.66**
Total	42	39	217	0.99 ± 0.000	0.001 ± 0.00	17.61	214	− 2.40**	− 4.28**

n: Number of sequences, h: Number of Haplotypes, Hd: Haplotype (gene) diversity, π: Nucleotide diversity (per site) [17], K: Average number of nucleotide differences between two randomly chosen sequences within the population [18], S: Number of variable/segregating sites. Eta: Total number of mutations. **P < 0.01, *P < 0.05

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