Biased phylodynamic inferences from analysing clusters of viral sequences.
Biased phylodynamic inferences from analysing clusters of viral sequences.
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分析病毒序列簇的偏置系统动力学推断。
DOI:
10.1093/ve/vex020
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发表时间:
2017-07
期刊:
影响因子:
5.3
通讯作者:
Frost SDW
中科院分区:
文献类型:
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作者:
Dearlove BL;Xiang F;Frost SDW
Phylogenetic methods are being increasingly used to help understand the transmission dynamics of measurably evolving viruses, including HIV. Clusters of highly similar sequences are often observed, which appear to follow a ‘power law’ behaviour, with a small number of very large clusters. These clusters may help to identify subpopulations in an epidemic, and inform where intervention strategies should be implemented. However, clustering of samples does not necessarily imply the presence of a subpopulation with high transmission rates, as groups of closely related viruses can also occur due to non-epidemiological effects such as over-sampling. It is important to ensure that observed phylogenetic clustering reflects true heterogeneity in the transmitting population, and is not being driven by non-epidemiological effects. We qualify the effect of using a falsely identified ‘transmission cluster’ of sequences to estimate phylodynamic parameters including the effective population size and exponential growth rate under several demographic scenarios. Our simulation studies show that taking the maximum size cluster to re-estimate parameters from trees simulated under a randomly mixing, constant population size coalescent process systematically underestimates the overall effective population size. In addition, the transmission cluster wrongly resembles an exponential or logistic growth model 99% of the time. We also illustrate the consequences of false clusters in exponentially growing coalescent and birth-death trees, where again, the growth rate is skewed upwards. This has clear implications for identifying clusters in large viral databases, where a false cluster could result in wasted intervention resources.
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影响因子:
6.8
作者:
AKAIKE, H
通讯作者:
AKAIKE, H
DOI:
10.1098/rstb.2012.0314
发表时间:
2013-03-19
影响因子:
6.3
作者:
Dearlove, Bethany;Wilson, Daniel J.
通讯作者:
Wilson, Daniel J.
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.0407534102
发表时间:
2005-03-22
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
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通讯作者:
Pybus, OG
影响因子:
6.4
作者:
Kouyos, Roger D.;von Wyl, Viktor;Guenthard, Huldrych F.
通讯作者:
Guenthard, Huldrych F.
影响因子:
3.8
作者:
Bezemer, Daniela;van Sighem, Ard;de Wolf, Frank
通讯作者:
de Wolf, Frank