Sampling bias and incorrect rooting make phylogenetic network tracing of SARS-COV-2 infections unreliable

Authors

Carla Mavian, University of Florida
Sergei Kosakovsky Pond, Temple University
Simone Marini, University of Florida
Brittany Rife Magalis, University of Florida
Anne Mieke Vandamme, Departement Microbiologie, Immunologie en Transplantatie
Simon Dellicour, Departement Microbiologie, Immunologie en Transplantatie
Samuel V. Scarpino, Northeastern University
Charlotte Houldcroft, University of Cambridge
Julian Villabona-Arenas, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Taylor K. Paisie, University of Florida
Nídia S. Trovão, Fogarty International Center (FIC)
Christina Boucher, University of Florida
Yun Zhang, J. Craig Venter Institute
Richard H. Scheuermann, J. Craig Venter Institute
Olivier Gascuel, Institut Pasteur, Paris
Tommy Tsan Yuk Lam, The University of Hong Kong, State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases
Marc A. Suchard, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Ana Abecasis, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical
Eduan Wilkinson, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Tulio de Oliveira, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Ana I. Bento, Indiana University Bloomington
Heiko A. Schmidt, Medizinische Universitat Wien
Darren Martin, University of Cape Town
James Hadfield, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Nuno Faria, University of Oxford
Nathan D. Grubaugh, Yale University
Richard A. Neher, Biozentrum, Universität Basel
Guy Baele, Departement Microbiologie, Immunologie en Transplantatie
Philippe Lemey, Departement Microbiologie, Immunologie en Transplantatie
Tanja Stadler, Écoles polytechniques fédérales
Jan Albert, Karolinska Institutet
Keith A. Crandall, Milken Institute School of Public Health

Document Type

Letter to the Editor

Publication Date

6-9-2020

Journal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volume

117

Issue

23

DOI

10.1073/pnas.2007295117

Recommended Citation

Mavian, C., Pond, S., Marini, S., Magalis, B., Vandamme, A., Dellicour, S., Scarpino, S., Houldcroft, C., Villabona-Arenas, J., Paisie, T., Trovão, N., Boucher, C., Zhang, Y., Scheuermann, R., Gascuel, O., Lam, T., Suchard, M., Abecasis, A., Wilkinson, E., de Oliveira, T., Bento, A., Schmidt, H., Martin, D., Hadfield, J., Faria, N., Grubaugh, N., Neher, R., Baele, G., Lemey, P., Stadler, T., Albert, J., & Crandall, K. (2020). Sampling bias and incorrect rooting make phylogenetic network tracing of SARS-COV-2 infections unreliable. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117 (23). http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2007295117