Article
Investigation of the pattern of diversity of hepatitis C virus in relation to times of transmission.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 Jan 1997
Simmonds P, Smith D B
Abstract excerpt
The rate of sequence change of HCV in vivo was used to date the spread of HCV genotype 1b in European, USA and Japanese populations. Silent substitution rates of 0.0011 and 0.0017 substitutions per site per year were observed in the NS5 and E1 regions by sequence comparisons from a cohort of individuals infected from a common source of infection 17 years previously. Mean silent substitution frequencies of 0.169...
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