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SUBMITTER: Wegner F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6805225 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wegner Fanny F Lassalle Florent F Depledge Daniel P DP Balloux François F Breuer Judith J
Molecular biology and evolution 20191101 11
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is one of the most common viral infections in humans and persists within its host for life. EBV therefore represents an extremely successful virus that has evolved complex strategies to evade the host's innate and adaptive immune response during both initial and persistent stages of infection. Here, we conducted a comparative genomics analysis on 223 whole genome sequences of worldwide EBV strains. We recover extensive genome-wide linkage disequilibrium (LD) despite perv ...[more]