Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5909952 | Infection, Genetics and Evolution | 2013 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
If the virus/protein complexity prevents the accumulation of escape mutations, the epitope density is expected to be positively correlated with both the number of proteins in the virus and the length of proteins. We show that such correlations are indeed observed for most human viruses. For non-human viruses the correlations were much less significant, indicating that the correlation is indeed induced by human HLA molecules.
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Authors
Alexandra Agranovich, Yaakov Maman, Yoram Louzoun,