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most citedThe rise and fall of the Phytophthora infestans lineage that triggered the Irish potato famine

445 citations

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q-bio.PE2016

Establishment and stability of the latent HIV-1 DNA reservoir

Johanna Brodin, Fabio Zanini, Lina Thebo +4

HIV-1 infection currently cannot be cured because the virus persists as integrated proviral DNA in long-lived cells despite years of suppressive antiretroviral therapy (ART). To ch…

q-bio.PE2016★ 3 cited

In-vivo mutation rates and fitness landscape of HIV-1

Fabio Zanini, Vadim Puller, Johanna Brodin +2

Mutation rates and fitness costs of deleterious mutations are difficult to measure in vivo but essential for a quantitative understanding of evolution. Using whole genome deep sequ…

q-bio.PE2015★ 265 cited

Prediction, dynamics, and visualization of antigenic phenotypes of seasonal influenza viruses

Richard A. Neher, Trevor Bedford, Rodney S. Daniels +2

Human seasonal influenza viruses evolve rapidly, enabling the virus population to evade immunity and re-infect previously infected individuals. Antigenic properties are largely det…

q-bio.PE2015★ 282 cited

Population genomics of intrapatient HIV-1 evolution

Fabio Zanini, Johanna Brodin, Lina Thebo +4

Many microbial populations rapidly adapt to changing environments with multiple variants competing for survival. To quantify such complex evolutionary dynamics in vivo, time resolv…

q-bio.PE2014★ 244 cited

Predicting evolution from the shape of genealogical trees

Richard A. Neher, Colin A. Russell, Boris I. Shraiman

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 genealogica…

q-bio.PE2013★ 41 cited

Inferring HIV escape rates from multi-locus genotype data

Taylor A. Kessinger, Alan S. Perelson, Richard A. Neher

Cytotoxic T-lymphocytes (CTLs) recognize viral protein fragments displayed by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules on the surface of virally infected cells and generate…

q-bio.PE2013★ 86 cited

Coalescence, genetic diversity in sexual populations under selection

Richard A. Neher, Taylor A. Kessinger, Boris I. Shraiman

In sexual populations, selection operates neither on the whole genome, which is repeatedly taken apart and reassembled by recombination, nor on individual alleles that are tightly…

q-bio.PE2013★ 52 cited

Deleterious synonymous mutations hitchhike to high frequency in HIV-1 env evolution

Fabio Zanini, Richard A. Neher

Intrapatient HIV-1 evolution is dominated by selection on the protein level in the arms race with the adaptive immune system. When cytotoxic CD8+ T-cells or neutralizing antibodies…

q-bio.PE2013★ 221 cited

Genetic draft, selective interference, and population genetics of rapid adaptation

Richard A. Neher

To learn about the past from a sample of genomic sequences, one needs to understand how evolutionary processes shape genetic diversity. Most population genetic inference is based o…

q-bio.PE2012★ 278 cited

Genealogies of rapidly adapting populations

Richard A. Neher, Oskar Hallatschek

The genetic diversity of a species is shaped by its recent evolutionary history and can be used to infer demographic events or selective sweeps. Most inference methods are based on…

q-bio.PE2012

FFPopSim: An efficient forward simulation package for the evolution of large populations

Fabio Zanini, Richard A. Neher

The analysis of the evolutionary dynamics of a population with many polymorphic loci is challenging since a large number of possible genotypes needs to be tracked. In the absence o…

q-bio.PE2012★ 40 cited

Mathematical modeling of escape of HIV from cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses

Vitaly V. Ganusov, Richard A. Neher, Alan S. Perelson

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1 or simply HIV) induces a persistent infection, which in the absence of treatment leads to AIDS and death in almost all infected individuals. HIV…

q-bio.PE2012

Fluctuations of fitness distributions and the rate of Muller's ratchet

Richard A. Neher, Boris I. Shraiman

The accumulation of deleterious mutations is driven by rare fluctuations which lead to the loss of all mutation free individuals, a process known as Muller's ratchet. Even though M…

q-bio.PE2012

Estimating the Strength of Selective Sweeps from Deep Population Diversity Data

Philipp W. Messer, Richard A. Neher

Selective sweeps are typically associated with a local reduction of genetic diversity around the adaptive site. However, selective sweeps can also quickly carry neutral mutations t…

q-bio.PE2012

LMM-Lasso: A Lasso Multi-Marker Mixed Model for Association Mapping with Population Structure Correction

Barbara Rakitsch, Christoph Lippert, Oliver Stegle +1

Exploring the genetic basis of heritable traits remains one of the central challenges in biomedical research. In simple cases, single polymorphic loci explain a significant fractio…

q-bio.PE2012★ 29 cited

Emergence of clones in sexual populations

Richard A. Neher, Marija Vucelja, Marc Mézard +1

In sexual population, recombination reshuffles genetic variation and produces novel combinations of existing alleles, while selection amplifies the fittest genotypes in the populat…

q-bio.PE2011★ 123 cited

Statistical Genetics and Evolution of Quantitative Traits

Richard A. Neher, Boris I. Shraiman

The distribution and heritability of many traits depends on numerous loci in the genome. In general, the astronomical number of possible genotypes makes the system with large numbe…