Birth-death skyline plot reveals temporal changes of epidemic spread in HIV and hepatitis C virus (H...
Birth-death skyline plot reveals temporal changes of epidemic spread in HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV)
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United States: National Academy of Sciences
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Phylogenetic trees can be used to infer the processes that generated them. Here, we introduce a model, the Bayesian birth-death skyline plot which explicitly estimates the rate of transmission, recovery, and sampling and thus allows inference of the effective reproductive number directly from genetic data. Our method allows these parameters to vary...
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Birth-death skyline plot reveals temporal changes of epidemic spread in HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV)
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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_3538216
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_3538216
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0027-8424
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1091-6490
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10.1073/pnas.1207965110
