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Elena E Giorgi1, Bette T Korber, Alan S Perelson, Tanmoy Bhattacharya.
Abstract
Previously we proposed two simplified models of early HIV-1 evolution. Both showed that under a model of neutral evolution and exponential growth, the mean Hamming distance (HD) between genetic sequences grows linearly with time. In this paper we describe a more realistic continuous-time, age-dependent mathematical model of infection and viral replication, and show through simulations that even in this more complex description, the mean Hamming distance grows linearly with time. This remains unchanged when we introduce recombination, though the confidence intervals of the mean HD obtained ignoring recombination are overly conservative. Published by Elsevier Ltd.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23567647 PMCID: PMC3667750 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2013.03.026
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Theor Biol ISSN: 0022-5193 Impact factor: 2.691