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Deconvolving mutational patterns of poliovirus outbreaks reveals its intrinsic fitness landscape.
Nature communications - 17 Jan 2020
Quadeer Ahmed A, Barton John P, Chakraborty Arup K, McKay Matthew R
Abstract excerpt
Vaccination has essentially eradicated poliovirus. Yet, its mutation rate is higher than that of viruses like HIV, for which no effective vaccine exists. To investigate this, we infer a fitness model for the poliovirus viral protein 1 (vp1), which successfully predicts in vitro fitness measurements. This is achieved by first developing a probabilistic model for the prevalence of vp1 sequences that enables us to...
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