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Comment by Jonathan E. Pekar

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Computational biologist and first author on studies of SARS-CoV-2 molecular epidemiology and zoonotic origins
To infer the ancestral SARS-CoV-2 haplotype, we developed a non-reversible, random-effects substitution process model in a Bayesian phylodynamic framework that simultaneously reconstructs the underlying coalescent processes and the sequence of the MRCA of the SARS-CoV-2 phylogeny.
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The molecular epidemiology of multiple zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2
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Bayesian analysis is the right framework for settling the COVID-19 origins question
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Disputed The sentence appears verbatim in the paper, but the source is a multi-author article (Pekar, Magee, Parker, et al.), so it is not correctly attributable to Jonathan E. Pekar alone. The article/paper was first released on 2022-07-26, matching the supplied date. ([escholarship.org](https://escholarship.org/content/qt2sz9s0gw/qt2sz9s0gw.pdf?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 · 2h ago
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