Sentences with phrase «spread about the genome»

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It's important to understand how networks function because, as Watts puts it, «that has relevance to just about every question we're interested in, whether we're talking about the spread of epidemics, or changes in social norms, or fashions, or the expression of the genome.»

Sequencing virus genomes from even a fraction of people infected in an epidemic and comparing mutation patterns can give researchers valuable information about how big the epidemic is, how long it has been spreading and where transmissions chains start and end, said Dr. Trevor Bedford, a Fred Hutch evolutionary biologist and one of the paper's authors.