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Predicting evolution from the shape of genealogical trees

Neher, Richard A. and Russell, Colin A. and Shraiman, Boris I.. (2014) Predicting evolution from the shape of genealogical trees. eLife, 3. p. 18.

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Abstract

Given a sample of genome sequences from an asexual population, can one predict its evolutionary future? Here we demonstrate that the branching patterns of reconstructed genealogical trees contains information about the relative fitness of the sampled sequences and that this information can be used to predict successful strains. Our approach is based on the assumption that evolution proceeds by accumulation of small effect mutations, does not require species specific input and can be applied to any asexual population under persistent selection pressure. We demonstrate its performance using historical data on seasonal influenza A/H3N2 virus. We predict the progenitor lineage of the upcoming influenza season with near optimal performance in 30% of cases and make informative predictions in 16 out of 19 years. Beyond providing a tool for prediction, our ability to make informative predictions implies persistent fitness variation among circulating influenza A/H3N2 viruses.
Faculties and Departments:05 Faculty of Science > Departement Biozentrum > Computational & Systems Biology > Computational Modeling of Biological Processes (Neher)
UniBasel Contributors:Neher, Richard
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
ISSN:2050-084X
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
Language:English
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Last Modified:16 Sep 2019 10:38
Deposited On:03 Oct 2017 07:31

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