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PLoS Comput Biol. 2019 Aug 6;15(8):e1007189. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007189. eCollection 2019 Aug.
Bayesian phylodynamics of avian influenza A virus H9N2 in Asia with time-dependent predictors of migration.
Yang J1,2,3, M?ller NF4,5, Bouckaert R2,3,6, Xu B1,7, Drummond AJ2,3.
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1 College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. 2 School of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. 3 Centre for Computational Evolution, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. 4 Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Z?rich, Z?rich, Switzerland. 5 Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Lausanne, Switzerland. 6 Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany. 7 Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Abstract
Model-based phylodynamic approaches recently employed generalized linear models (GLMs) to uncover potential predictors of viral spread. Very recently some of these models have allowed both the predictors and their coefficients to be time-dependent. However, these studies mainly focused on predictors that are assumed to be constant through time. Here we inferred the phylodynamics of avian influenza A virus H9N2 isolated in 12 Asian countries and regions under both discrete trait analysis (DTA) and structured coalescent (MASCOT) approaches. Using MASCOT we applied a new time-dependent GLM to uncover the underlying factors behind H9N2 spread. We curated a rich set of time-series predictors including annual international live poultry trade and national poultry production figures. This time-dependent phylodynamic prediction model was compared to commonly employed time-independent alternatives. Additionally the time-dependent MASCOT model allowed for the estimation of viral effective sub-population sizes and their changes through time, and these effective population dynamics within each country were predicted by a GLM. International annual poultry trade is a strongly supported predictor of virus migration rates. There was also strong support for geographic proximity as a predictor of migration rate in all GLMs investigated. In time-dependent MASCOT models, national poultry production was also identified as a predictor of virus genetic diversity through time and this signal was obvious in mainland China. Our application of a recently introduced time-dependent GLM predictors integrated rich time-series data in Bayesian phylodynamic prediction. We demonstrated the contribution of poultry trade and geographic proximity (potentially unheralded wild bird movements) to avian influenza spread in Asia. To gain a better understanding of the drivers of H9N2 spread, we suggest increased surveillance of the H9N2 virus in countries that are currently under-sampled as well as in wild bird populations in the most affected countries.
PMID: 31386651 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007189
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Bayesian phylodynamics of avian influenza A virus H9N2 in Asia with time-dependent predictors of migration.
Yang J1,2,3, M?ller NF4,5, Bouckaert R2,3,6, Xu B1,7, Drummond AJ2,3.
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1 College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. 2 School of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. 3 Centre for Computational Evolution, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. 4 Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Z?rich, Z?rich, Switzerland. 5 Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Lausanne, Switzerland. 6 Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany. 7 Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Abstract
Model-based phylodynamic approaches recently employed generalized linear models (GLMs) to uncover potential predictors of viral spread. Very recently some of these models have allowed both the predictors and their coefficients to be time-dependent. However, these studies mainly focused on predictors that are assumed to be constant through time. Here we inferred the phylodynamics of avian influenza A virus H9N2 isolated in 12 Asian countries and regions under both discrete trait analysis (DTA) and structured coalescent (MASCOT) approaches. Using MASCOT we applied a new time-dependent GLM to uncover the underlying factors behind H9N2 spread. We curated a rich set of time-series predictors including annual international live poultry trade and national poultry production figures. This time-dependent phylodynamic prediction model was compared to commonly employed time-independent alternatives. Additionally the time-dependent MASCOT model allowed for the estimation of viral effective sub-population sizes and their changes through time, and these effective population dynamics within each country were predicted by a GLM. International annual poultry trade is a strongly supported predictor of virus migration rates. There was also strong support for geographic proximity as a predictor of migration rate in all GLMs investigated. In time-dependent MASCOT models, national poultry production was also identified as a predictor of virus genetic diversity through time and this signal was obvious in mainland China. Our application of a recently introduced time-dependent GLM predictors integrated rich time-series data in Bayesian phylodynamic prediction. We demonstrated the contribution of poultry trade and geographic proximity (potentially unheralded wild bird movements) to avian influenza spread in Asia. To gain a better understanding of the drivers of H9N2 spread, we suggest increased surveillance of the H9N2 virus in countries that are currently under-sampled as well as in wild bird populations in the most affected countries.
PMID: 31386651 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007189
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