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. 2021 Oct 8;374(6564):182-188.
doi: 10.1126/science.abi5658. Epub 2021 Oct 7.

Ten millennia of hepatitis B virus evolution

Arthur Kocher  1   2   3 Luka Papac  2   3 Rodrigo Barquera  2   3 Felix M Key  2   4 Maria A Spyrou  2   3   5 Ron Hübler  2 Adam B Rohrlach  2   3   6 Franziska Aron  2 Raphaela Stahl  2 Antje Wissgott  2 Florian van Bömmel  7 Maria Pfefferkorn  7 Alissa Mittnik  2   8   9 Vanessa Villalba-Mouco  2   10 Gunnar U Neumann  2   3 Maïté Rivollat  2   11 Marieke S van de Loosdrecht  2 Kerttu Majander  2   12 Rezeda I Tukhbatova  2   13 Lyazzat Musralina  2   3   14   15 Ayshin Ghalichi  2   3 Sandra Penske  2   3 Susanna Sabin  2 Megan Michel  2   3   9 Joscha Gretzinger  2   3 Elizabeth A Nelson  2 Tiago Ferraz  2   16 Kathrin Nägele  2   3 Cody Parker  2   17 Marcel Keller  2   18 Evelyn K Guevara  2   19 Michal Feldman  2   5 Stefanie Eisenmann  2   3 Eirini Skourtanioti  2   3 Karen Giffin  2   3 Guido Alberto Gnecchi-Ruscone  2   3 Susanne Friederich  20 Vittoria Schimmenti  21 Valery Khartanovich  22 Marina K Karapetian  23 Mikhail S Chaplygin  24 Vladimir V Kufterin  25 Aleksandr A Khokhlov  26 Andrey A Chizhevsky  27 Dmitry A Stashenkov  28 Anna F Kochkina  28 Cristina Tejedor-Rodríguez  29 Íñigo García-Martínez de Lagrán  30 Héctor Arcusa-Magallón  31 Rafael Garrido-Pena  32 José Ignacio Royo-Guillén  33 Jan Nováček  34   35 Stéphane Rottier  11 Sacha Kacki  11   36 Sylvie Saintot  37 Elena Kaverzneva  38 Andrej B Belinskiy  39 Petr Velemínský  40 Petr Limburský  41 Michal Kostka  42 Louise Loe  43 Elizabeth Popescu  44 Rachel Clarke  44 Alice Lyons  44 Richard Mortimer  44 Antti Sajantila  19   45 Yadira Chinique de Armas  46 Silvia Teresita Hernandez Godoy  47   48 Diana I Hernández-Zaragoza  49   50 Jessica Pearson  51 Didier Binder  52 Philippe Lefranc  53 Anatoly R Kantorovich  54 Vladimir E Maslov  55 Luca Lai  56   57 Magdalena Zoledziewska  58 Jessica F Beckett  59 Michaela Langová  41 Alžběta Danielisová  41 Tara Ingman  60 Gabriel García Atiénzar  61 Maria Paz de Miguel Ibáñez  61 Alejandro Romero  61   62 Alessandra Sperduti  63   64 Sophie Beckett  65   66   67 Susannah J Salter  65   68 Emma D Zilivinskaya  25 Dmitry V Vasil'ev  69 Kristin von Heyking  70 Richard L Burger  71 Lucy C Salazar  71 Luc Amkreutz  72 Masnav Navruzbekov  73 Eva Rosenstock  74 Carmen Alonso-Fernández  75 Vladimir Slavchev  76 Alexey A Kalmykov  39 Biaslan Ch Atabiev  77 Elena Batieva  78 Micaela Alvarez Calmet  79 Bastien Llamas  80   81   82 Michael Schultz  83   84 Raiko Krauß  85 Javier Jiménez-Echevarría  75 Michael Francken  86 Svetlana Shnaider  87 Peter de Knijff  88 Eveline Altena  88 Katrien Van de Vijver  89   90   91 Lars Fehren-Schmitz  92   93 Tiffiny A Tung  94 Sandra Lösch  95 Maria Dobrovolskaya  55 Nikolaj Makarov  55 Chris Read  96 Melanie Van Twest  65 Claudia Sagona  97 Peter C Ramsl  98 Murat Akar  99 K Aslihan Yener  100 Eduardo Carmona Ballestero  101   102 Francesco Cucca  58   103 Vittorio Mazzarello  103 Pilar Utrilla  104 Kurt Rademaker  105 Eva Fernández-Domínguez  36 Douglas Baird  51 Patrick Semal  89 Lourdes Márquez-Morfín  106 Mirjana Roksandic  46   107   108 Hubert Steiner  109 Domingo Carlos Salazar-García  110   111   112 Natalia Shishlina  22   38 Yilmaz Selim Erdal  113 Fredrik Hallgren  114 Yavor Boyadzhiev  115 Kamen Boyadzhiev  115 Mario Küßner  34 Duncan Sayer  116 Päivi Onkamo  117   118 Robin Skeates  36 Manuel Rojo-Guerra  29 Alexandra Buzhilova  23 Elmira Khussainova  15 Leyla B Djansugurova  15 Arman Z Beisenov  119 Zainolla Samashev  120   121 Ken Massy  122 Marcello Mannino  123   124 Vyacheslav Moiseyev  22 Kristiina Mannermaa  125 Oleg Balanovsky  126   127   128 Marie-France Deguilloux  11 Sabine Reinhold  129 Svend Hansen  129 Egor P Kitov  25   119 Miroslav Dobeš  41 Michal Ernée  41 Harald Meller  20 Kurt W Alt  130   131   132 Kay Prüfer  2   3 Christina Warinner  2   3   133 Stephan Schiffels  2   3 Philipp W Stockhammer  2   3   122 Kirsten Bos  2   3 Cosimo Posth  2   5 Alexander Herbig  2   3 Wolfgang Haak  2   3   134 Johannes Krause  2   3 Denise Kühnert  1   2   3   135
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Ten millennia of hepatitis B virus evolution

Arthur Kocher et al. Science. .

Abstract

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been infecting humans for millennia and remains a global health problem, but its past diversity and dispersal routes are largely unknown. We generated HBV genomic data from 137 Eurasians and Native Americans dated between ~10,500 and ~400 years ago. We date the most recent common ancestor of all HBV lineages to between ~20,000 and 12,000 years ago, with the virus present in European and South American hunter-gatherers during the early Holocene. After the European Neolithic transition, Mesolithic HBV strains were replaced by a lineage likely disseminated by early farmers that prevailed throughout western Eurasia for ~4000 years, declining around the end of the 2nd millennium BCE. The only remnant of this prehistoric HBV diversity is the rare genotype G, which appears to have reemerged during the HIV pandemic.

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