Population Dynamics of HIV-1 Inferred From Gene Sequences

Corresponding author: Nicholas C. Grassly, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, c/o Zoology Institute, University of Munich, Luisenstr. 14, Munich D-80333, Germany., grassly{at}zi.biologie.uni-muenchen.de (E-mail)

Communicating editor: M. SLATKIN

A method for the estimation of population dynamic history from sequence data is described and used to investigate the past population dynamics of HIV-1 subtypes A and B. Using both gag and env gene alignments the effective population size of each subtype is estimated and found to be surprisingly small. This may be a result of the selective sweep of mutations through the population, or may indicate an important role of genetic drift in the fixation of mutations. The implications of these results for the spread of drug-resistant mutations and transmission dynamics, and also the roles of selection and recombination in shaping HIV-1 genetic diversity, are discussed. A larger estimated effective population size for subtype A may be the result of differences in time of origin, transmission dynamics, and/or population structure. To investigate the importance of population structure a model of population subdivision was fitted to each subtype, although the improvement in likelihood was found to be nonsignificant.

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