Phylodynamic inference for structured epidemiological models.

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Rasmussen, David A

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Volz, Erik M

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Koelle, Katia

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Kosakovsky Pond, Sergei L

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United States

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2015-09-16T14:01:14Z

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2014-04

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Coalescent theory is routinely used to estimate past population dynamics and demographic parameters from genealogies. While early work in coalescent theory only considered simple demographic models, advances in theory have allowed for increasingly complex demographic scenarios to be considered. The success of this approach has lead to coalescent-based inference methods being applied to populations with rapidly changing population dynamics, including pathogens like RNA viruses. However, fitting epidemiological models to genealogies via coalescent models remains a challenging task, because pathogen populations often exhibit complex, nonlinear dynamics and are structured by multiple factors. Moreover, it often becomes necessary to consider stochastic variation in population dynamics when fitting such complex models to real data. Using recently developed structured coalescent models that accommodate complex population dynamics and population structure, we develop a statistical framework for fitting stochastic epidemiological models to genealogies. By combining particle filtering methods with Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, we are able to fit a wide class of stochastic, nonlinear epidemiological models with different forms of population structure to genealogies. We demonstrate our framework using two structured epidemiological models: a model with disease progression between multiple stages of infection and a two-population model reflecting spatial structure. We apply the multi-stage model to HIV genealogies and show that the proposed method can be used to estimate the stage-specific transmission rates and prevalence of HIV. Finally, using the two-population model we explore how much information about population structure is contained in genealogies and what sample sizes are necessary to reliably infer parameters like migration rates.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24743590

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PCOMPBIOL-D-13-01925

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1553-7358

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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/10612

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eng

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Public Library of Science (PLoS)

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PLoS Comput Biol

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10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003570

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Algorithms

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Bayes Theorem

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Epidemiologic Studies

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Likelihood Functions

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Markov Chains

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Models, Statistical

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Monte Carlo Method

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Phylogeny

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Stochastic Processes

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Phylodynamic inference for structured epidemiological models.

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Journal article

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24743590

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e1003570

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4

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Biology

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Duke

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Global Health Institute

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Institutes and Provost's Academic Units

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Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

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University Institutes and Centers

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Published online

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10

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