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Editorial
. 2021 Sep;50(9):i-v.
doi: 10.18502/ijph.v50i9.7086.

Evidence of the Ancestries of COVID-19 Virus in East Asia, More than 20,000 Years Ago

Dariush D Farhud  1   2   3 , Moslem Bahadori  2   4 , Marjan Zarif-Yeganeh  3
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Editorial

Evidence of the Ancestries of COVID-19 Virus in East Asia, More than 20,000 Years Ago

Dariush D Farhud et al. Iran J Public Health. 2021 Sep.
No abstract available

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Conflict of interest The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests.

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Fig. 1:
Ancient viral epidemics can be identified through adaptation in host genomes and human Genomes in East Asia bear the signature of about 25,000-year-old viral epidemic (3)
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