Names The variant is known by several names. Outside the UK it is sometimes referred to as the UK variant or British variant or English variant, despite the existence of other, less common, variants first identified in UK, such as Eta variant (lineage B.1.525). Within the UK, it is commonly referred to as the Kent variant after Kent, where the variant was found. In scientific use, the variant had originally been named the first Variant Under Investigation in December<unk> 020 (VUI –<unk> 02012/01) by Public Health England (PHE), but was reclassified to a Variant of Concern (Variant of Concern<unk> 02012/01, abbreviated VOC-202012/01) by Meera Chand and her colleagues in a report published by PHE on<unk> 1 December<unk> 020. In a report written on behalf of<unk> ID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium, Andrew Rambaut and his co-authors, using the Phylogenetic Assignment of Named Global Outbreak Lineages (pangolin) tool, dubbed it lineage B.1.1.7, while Nextstrain dubbed the variant<unk> 0I/501Y.V1. The name VOC-202102/02 refers to the variant with the E484K mutation (see below). Genetic profile File:SARS-CoV-2<unk>  variant.Amino acid mutations of<unk>  plotted on a genome map of SARS-CoV-2 with a focus on Spike. + Gene Nucleotide Amino acid ORF1ab C3267T T1001I C5388A A1708D T6954C I2230T 11288–11296 deletion SGF 3675–3677 deletion Spike<unk> 1765–21770 deletion HV 69–70 deletion<unk> 1991–21993 deletion Y144 deletion A23063T N501Y C23271A A570D C23604A P681H C23709T T716I T24506G S982A G24914C D1118H ORF8 C27972T Q27stop G28048T R52I A28111G Y73C N<unk> 8280 GAT→CTA D3L C28977T S235F Source: Mutations in SARS-CoV-2 are common: over 4,000 mutations have been detected in its spike protein alone, according to the<unk> ID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium. VOC-202012/01 is defined by<unk> 3 mutations: 14 non-synonymous mutations, 3 deletions, and 6 synonymous mutations (i.e., there are 17 mutations that change proteins and six that do not).
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