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Prevalence of epistasis in the evolution of influenza A surface proteins.
PLoS genetics - 1 Feb 2011
Kryazhimskiy Sergey, Dushoff Jonathan, Bazykin Georgii A, Plotkin Joshua B
Abstract excerpt
The surface proteins of human influenza A viruses experience positive selection to escape both human immunity and, more recently, antiviral drug treatments. In bacteria and viruses, immune-escape and drug-resistant phenotypes often appear through a combination of several mutations that have epistatic effects on pathogen fitness. However, the extent and structure of epistasis in influenza viral proteins have not...
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