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Challenges in Harnessing Shared Within-Host Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Variation for Transmission Inference
BACKGROUND: The limited variation observed among severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) consensus sequences makes it difficult to reconstruct transmission linkages in outbreak settings. Previous studies have recovered variation within individual SARS-CoV-2 infections but have n...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9898879/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36751652 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofad001 |
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author | Walter, Katharine S Kim, Eugene Verma, Renu Altamirano, Jonathan Leary, Sean Carrington, Yuan J Jagannathan, Prasanna Singh, Upinder Holubar, Marisa Subramanian, Aruna Khosla, Chaitan Maldonado, Yvonne Andrews, Jason R |
author_facet | Walter, Katharine S Kim, Eugene Verma, Renu Altamirano, Jonathan Leary, Sean Carrington, Yuan J Jagannathan, Prasanna Singh, Upinder Holubar, Marisa Subramanian, Aruna Khosla, Chaitan Maldonado, Yvonne Andrews, Jason R |
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description | BACKGROUND: The limited variation observed among severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) consensus sequences makes it difficult to reconstruct transmission linkages in outbreak settings. Previous studies have recovered variation within individual SARS-CoV-2 infections but have not yet measured the informativeness of within-host variation for transmission inference. METHODS: We performed tiled amplicon sequencing on 307 SARS-CoV-2 samples, including 130 samples from 32 individuals in 14 households and 47 longitudinally sampled individuals, from 4 prospective studies with household membership data, a proxy for transmission linkage. RESULTS: Consensus sequences from households had limited diversity (mean pairwise distance, 3.06 single-nucleotide polymorphisms [SNPs]; range, 0–40). Most (83.1%, 255 of 307) samples harbored at least 1 intrahost single-nucleotide variant ([iSNV] median, 117; interquartile range [IQR], 17–208), above a minor allele frequency threshold of 0.2%. Pairs in the same household shared significantly more iSNVs (mean, 1.20 iSNVs; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.02–1.39) than did pairs in different households infected with the same viral clade (mean, 0.31 iSNVs; 95% CI, .28–.34), a signal that decreases with increasingly stringent minor allele frequency thresholds. The number of shared iSNVs was significantly associated with an increased odds of household membership (adjusted odds ratio, 1.35; 95% CI, 1.23–1.49). However, the poor concordance of iSNVs detected across sequencing replicates (24.8% and 35.0% above a 0.2% and 1% threshold) confirms technical concerns that current sequencing and bioinformatic workflows do not consistently recover low-frequency within-host variants. CONCLUSIONS: Shared within-host variation may augment the information in consensus sequences for predicting transmission linkages. Improving sensitivity and specificity of within-host variant identification will improve the informativeness of within-host variation. |
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spelling | pubmed-98988792023-02-06 Challenges in Harnessing Shared Within-Host Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Variation for Transmission Inference Walter, Katharine S Kim, Eugene Verma, Renu Altamirano, Jonathan Leary, Sean Carrington, Yuan J Jagannathan, Prasanna Singh, Upinder Holubar, Marisa Subramanian, Aruna Khosla, Chaitan Maldonado, Yvonne Andrews, Jason R Open Forum Infect Dis Major Article BACKGROUND: The limited variation observed among severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) consensus sequences makes it difficult to reconstruct transmission linkages in outbreak settings. Previous studies have recovered variation within individual SARS-CoV-2 infections but have not yet measured the informativeness of within-host variation for transmission inference. METHODS: We performed tiled amplicon sequencing on 307 SARS-CoV-2 samples, including 130 samples from 32 individuals in 14 households and 47 longitudinally sampled individuals, from 4 prospective studies with household membership data, a proxy for transmission linkage. RESULTS: Consensus sequences from households had limited diversity (mean pairwise distance, 3.06 single-nucleotide polymorphisms [SNPs]; range, 0–40). Most (83.1%, 255 of 307) samples harbored at least 1 intrahost single-nucleotide variant ([iSNV] median, 117; interquartile range [IQR], 17–208), above a minor allele frequency threshold of 0.2%. Pairs in the same household shared significantly more iSNVs (mean, 1.20 iSNVs; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.02–1.39) than did pairs in different households infected with the same viral clade (mean, 0.31 iSNVs; 95% CI, .28–.34), a signal that decreases with increasingly stringent minor allele frequency thresholds. The number of shared iSNVs was significantly associated with an increased odds of household membership (adjusted odds ratio, 1.35; 95% CI, 1.23–1.49). However, the poor concordance of iSNVs detected across sequencing replicates (24.8% and 35.0% above a 0.2% and 1% threshold) confirms technical concerns that current sequencing and bioinformatic workflows do not consistently recover low-frequency within-host variants. CONCLUSIONS: Shared within-host variation may augment the information in consensus sequences for predicting transmission linkages. Improving sensitivity and specificity of within-host variant identification will improve the informativeness of within-host variation. Oxford University Press 2023-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9898879/ /pubmed/36751652 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofad001 Text en © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
spellingShingle | Major Article Walter, Katharine S Kim, Eugene Verma, Renu Altamirano, Jonathan Leary, Sean Carrington, Yuan J Jagannathan, Prasanna Singh, Upinder Holubar, Marisa Subramanian, Aruna Khosla, Chaitan Maldonado, Yvonne Andrews, Jason R Challenges in Harnessing Shared Within-Host Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Variation for Transmission Inference |
title | Challenges in Harnessing Shared Within-Host Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Variation for Transmission Inference |
title_full | Challenges in Harnessing Shared Within-Host Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Variation for Transmission Inference |
title_fullStr | Challenges in Harnessing Shared Within-Host Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Variation for Transmission Inference |
title_full_unstemmed | Challenges in Harnessing Shared Within-Host Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Variation for Transmission Inference |
title_short | Challenges in Harnessing Shared Within-Host Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Variation for Transmission Inference |
title_sort | challenges in harnessing shared within-host severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 variation for transmission inference |
topic | Major Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9898879/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36751652 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofad001 |
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