Accommodating individual travel history and unsampled diversity in Bayesian phylogeographic inference of SARS-CoV-2
Lemey P, Hong S, Hill V, Baele G, Poletto C, Colizza V, O’Toole Á, McCrone J, Andersen K, Worobey M, Nelson M, Rambaut A, Suchard M. Accommodating individual travel history and unsampled diversity in Bayesian phylogeographic inference of SARS-CoV-2. Nature Communications 2020, 11: 5110. PMID: 33037213, PMCID: PMC7547076, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18877-9.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBayesian phylogeographic inferencePhylogeographic inferenceSARS-CoV-2 genomeIndividual travel history dataImpact of sampling biasTravel history dataGenomic samplesPhylogeographic analysisSARS-CoV-2Sampling effortPosterior predictive accuracyUndersampled locationsGenomeVirus migrationSpatiotemporal biasesSpread of SARS-CoV-2Sampling biasTransmission hypothesisSampling locationsIndividual's travel historyLineagesVirus spreadDiversityGenomic Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Guangdong Province, China
Lu J, du Plessis L, Liu Z, Hill V, Kang M, Lin H, Sun J, François S, Kraemer M, Faria N, McCrone J, Peng J, Xiong Q, Yuan R, Zeng L, Zhou P, Liang C, Yi L, Liu J, Xiao J, Hu J, Liu T, Ma W, Li W, Su J, Zheng H, Peng B, Fang S, Su W, Li K, Sun R, Bai R, Tang X, Liang M, Quick J, Song T, Rambaut A, Loman N, Raghwani J, Pybus O, Ke C. Genomic Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Guangdong Province, China. Cell 2020, 181: 997-1003.e9. PMID: 32359424, PMCID: PMC7192124, DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.04.023.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGenetic diversity of SARS-CoV-2Combination of metagenomic sequencingDiversity of SARS-CoV-2Genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2Genetic diversityAmplicon approachPhylogenetic analysisMetagenomic sequencingPhylogenetic clusteringChina’s most populous province,Genetic variationEpidemiology of SARS-CoV-2Genomic epidemiologyIndependent introductionsSARS-CoV-2Molecular epidemiologyMolecular surveillanceGenomeLocal transmission chainsTransmission chainCentral ChinaSequenceSARS-CoV-2 infectionGuangdong Province