Journal
GENETICS
Volume 183, Issue 4, Pages 1421-1430Publisher
GENETICS SOCIETY AMERICA
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.109.106021
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- National Institutes of Health [T32 AI07384, R01 AI47745]
- Royal Society Wolfson Rescarch Merit Award
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
- MRC [G0600587] Funding Source: UKRI
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES [T32AI007384, R01AI047745] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- Medical Research Council [G0600587] Funding Source: researchfish
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We present a formalism for unifying the inference of population size front genetic sequences and mathematical models of infections disease in populations. Virus phylogenies have been used in many recent Studies to infer properties of epidemics. These approaches rely on coalescent models that may not be appropriate for infectious diseases. We account for phylogenetic patterns of viruses in susceptible-infected (SI), susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS), and susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) models of infectious disease, and our approach tray be a viable alternative to demographic models used to reconstruct epidemic dynamics. The method allows epidemiological parameters, such as the reproductive number, to be estimated directly front viral sequence data. We also describe patterns of phylogenetic clustering that are often construed as arising Front a short chain of transmissions. Our model reproduces the moments of the distribution of phylogenetic cluster sizes and may therefore serve as a null hypothesis for cluster Sizes Under simple epidemiological models. We examine a small cross-sectional sample of human immunodeficiency (HIV)-1 sequences collected in the United States and compare our results to standard estimates of effective population size. Estimated prevalence is consistent with estimates of effective population size and the known history of the HIV epidemic. While our model accurately estimates prevalence during exponential growth, we find that periods of decline are harder to identify.
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