Evolutionary Genetics Journal Club

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• Monday 17 July 2017, 16:00-17:00
• Bateson Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Ruoyun Hui.

Casper Lumby is going to present the following paper: Parallel evolution of influenza across multiple spatiotemporal scales by Xue et al.

Link: https://elifesciences.org/articles/26875

Abstract:

Viral variants that arise in the global influenza population begin as de novo mutations in single infected hosts, but the evolutionary dynamics that transform within-host variation to global genetic diversity are poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate that influenza evolution within infected humans recapitulates many evolutionary dynamics observed at the global scale. We deep-sequence longitudinal samples from four immunocompromised patients with long-term H3N2 influenza infections. We find parallel evolution across three scales: within individual patients, in different patients in our study, and in the global influenza population. In hemagglutinin, a small set of mutations arises independently in multiple patients. These same mutations emerge repeatedly within single patients and compete with one another, providing a vivid clinical example of clonal interference. Many of these recurrent within-host mutations also reach a high global frequency in the decade following the patient infections. Our results demonstrate surprising concordance in evolutionary dynamics across multiple spatiotemporal scales.

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