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Comment by Andrew F. Magee

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Computational biologist and coauthor of SARS-CoV-2 molecular epidemiology studies
Our unconstrained rooting strongly favors a lineage B or C/C ancestral haplotype and shows that a lineage A ancestral haplotype is inconsistent with the molecular clock [Bayes factor (BF) = 48.1].
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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 a PDF copy of the Science article. However, the paper is a multi-author article by Jonathan E. Pekar et al., published 2022-08-26, so Andrew F. Magee is only one coauthor and I can’t verify this as a single-author attribution. ([pure.ed.ac.uk](https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/files/301153226/science.abp8337.pdf)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 · 2h ago
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