Another weird aspect of BA.3.2 evolution so far: an extraordinary number of NSP1 mutations. NSP1 is only 180 AA, but a new mutation shows up almost every day there, often on top of previous new ones. The
@nextstrain.org visual here can't even accommodate all the NSP1 muts—at least 2 are invisible.
...if that's the case, then I expect we'll see a JN.1/BA.3.2 recombinant with BA.3.2's spike but with ORF7a (and 7b and 8) restored.
Will add one extremely weird fact here about BA.3.2: there are two unrelated branches with ORF6:Q56* (Denmark & Australia, 5 sequences total). 2/3
