Probable human origin of the SARS-CoV-2 polybasic furin cleavage motif

BMC Genomic Data

Table 6 Human genes whose mRNA 100% match the SARS-CoV-2 S gene insert encoding the spike glycoprotein N-terminal domain SRWM motif

S gene insert	Ubiquitous gene	Ubiquitous and highly expressed^a gene	Virus target organ or tissue specific gene	Human SARS-CoV-2 target organ or tissue
Coding TCAAGATGGATG	PANX1, SLC9A8, ESPL1, ARHGAP22, ERCC6	HNRNPM, CYTH3	ODF4 PEX5 UPF3A ZBTB21 FLRT2 GRIA1	Testis Testis Testis Adrenal Ovary Brain
Reverse complement CATCCATCTTGA	LSM8		IQCE ST6GAL2 SPIRE1	Testis Thyroid Brain

^ahight expressed, RPKM > 10 (transcript expression units are normalized reads per kilobase of transcript, per million mapped reads, RPKM)

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