Estimating the date of origin of an HIV-1 circulating recombinant form

• Main Authors: Tee, K.K., Pybus, O.G., Parker, J., Ng, K.P., Kamarulzaman, A., Takebe, Y.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: R Medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/4562/1/Estimating_the_date_of_origin_of_an_HIV-1_circulating_recombinant_form.pdf; http://eprints.um.edu.my/4562/
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

HIV is capable of frequent genetic exchange through recombination. Despite the pandemic spread of HIV-1 recombinants, their times of origin are not well understood. We investigate the epidemic history of a HIV-1 circulating recombinant form (CRF) by estimating the time of the recombination event tha...