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We would like to thank Drs. Chung-I Wu, Yaping Zhang, and Jindong Zhao for suggestive comments regarding this study. This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1902201) and the CAS Light of West China Program to X.L, and from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (91731301) to J.L.
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Li, T., Tang, X., Wu, C. et al. The use of SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses from bats and pangolins to polarize mutations in SARS-Cov-2. Sci. China Life Sci. 63, 1608–1611 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-020-1764-2
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