A blast analysis identified that the sequences most closely related to FR-HuHEVF3f were HEPAC-15, TLS09-3, SW8a24 Spain and JAO-SpaTok12. Alignments were performed with ClustalW using the complete or near-complete genome sequences of these HEV-3f sequences as well as the reference sequences of the different genotypes of HEV (HEV-1 to -8) and subtypes of HEV-3 [43 (link)]. A phylogenetic tree was then constructed by using the Maximum Likelihood method and Tamura-Nei model with a bootstrap of 1000 replicates. The initial tree was obtained using the Neighbor-Joining method. This analysis was conducted using the MEGA X software (http://www.megasoftware.net, accessed on 5 February 2021).
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