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SUBMITTER: Spensley KJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6377634 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Spensley Katrina J KJ Wikramaratna Paul S PS Penman Bridget S BS Walker Andrew A Smith Adrian L AL Pybus Oliver G OG Jean Létitia L Gupta Sunetra S Lourenço José J
Scientific reports 20190215 1
Despite a dramatic increase in our ability to catalogue variation among pathogen genomes, we have made far fewer advances in using this information to identify targets of protective immunity. Epidemiological models predict that strong immune selection can cause antigenic variants to structure into genetically discordant sets of antigenic types (e.g. serotypes). A corollary of this theory is that targets of immunity may be identified by searching for non-overlapping associations of amino acids am ...[more]