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Population Parameters Underlying an Ongoing Soft Sweep in Southeast Asian Malaria Parasites.

Abstract：

:Multiple kelch13 alleles conferring artemisinin resistance (ART-R) are currently spreading through Southeast Asian malaria parasite populations, providing a unique opportunity to observe an ongoing soft selective sweep, investigate why resistance alleles have evolved multiple times and determine fundamental population genetic parameters for Plasmodium We sequenced kelch13 (n = 1,876), genotyped 75 flanking SNPs, and measured clearance rate (n = 3,552) in parasite infections from Western Thailand (2001-2014). We describe 32 independent coding mutations including common mutations outside the kelch13 propeller associated with significant reductions in clearance rate. Mutations were first observed in 2003 and rose to 90% by 2014, consistent with a selection coefficient of ∼0.079. ART-R allele diversity rose until 2012 and then dropped as one allele (C580Y) spread to high frequency. The frequency with which adaptive alleles arise is determined by the rate of mutation and the population size. Two factors drive this soft sweep: (1) multiple kelch13 amino-acid mutations confer resistance providing a large mutational target-we estimate the target is 87-163 bp. (2) The population mutation parameter (Θ = 2Neμ) can be estimated from the frequency distribution of ART-R alleles and is ∼5.69, suggesting that short term effective population size is 88 thousand to 1.2 million. This is 52-705 times greater than Ne estimated from fluctuation in allele frequencies, suggesting that we have previously underestimated the capacity for adaptive evolution in Plasmodium Our central conclusions are that retrospective studies may underestimate the complexity of selective events and the Ne relevant for adaptation for malaria is considerably higher than previously estimated.

journal_name

Mol Biol Evol

journal_title

Molecular biology and evolution

authors

Anderson TJ,Nair S,McDew-White M,Cheeseman IH,Nkhoma S,Bilgic F,McGready R,Ashley E,Pyae Phyo A,White NJ,Nosten F

doi

10.1093/molbev/msw228

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2017-01-01 00:00:00

pages

131-144

issue

eissn

0737-4038

issn

1537-1719

pii

msw228

journal_volume

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Population Parameters Underlying an Ongoing Soft Sweep in Southeast Asian Malaria Parasites.