Article
Coordinated evolution of the hepatitis C virus.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Jul 2008
Campo D S, Dimitrova Z, Mitchell R J, Lara J, Khudyakov Y
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C virus is a genetically heterogeneous RNA virus that is a major cause of liver disease worldwide. Here, we show that, despite its extensive heterogeneity, the evolution of hepatitis C virus is primarily shaped by negative selection and that numerous coordinated substitutions in the polyprotein can be organized into a scale-free network whose degree of connections between sites follows a power-law...
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