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SUBMITTER: Dux A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7713999 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20200601 6497
Many infectious diseases are thought to have emerged in humans after the Neolithic revolution. Although it is broadly accepted that this also applies to measles, the exact date of emergence for this disease is controversial. We sequenced the genome of a 1912 measles virus and used selection-aware molecular clock modeling to determine the divergence date of measles virus and rinderpest virus. This divergence date represents the earliest possible date for the establishment of measles in human popu ...[more]