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- Title
Ancient Evolutionary History of Human Papillomavirus Type 16, 18 and 58 Variants Prevalent Exclusively in Japan.
- Authors
Tanaka, Kohsei; Kogure, Gota; Onuki, Mamiko; Matsumoto, Koji; Iwata, Takashi; Aoki, Daisuke; Kukimoto, Iwao
- Abstract
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a sexually transmitted virus with an approximately 8-kilo base DNA genome, which establishes long-term persistent infection in anogenital tissues. High levels of genetic variations, including viral genotypes and intra-type variants, have been described for HPV genomes, together with geographical differences in the distribution of genotypes and variants. Here, by employing a maximum likelihood method, we performed phylogenetic analyses of the complete genome sequences of HPV16, HPV18 and HPV58 available from GenBank (n = 627, 146 and 157, respectively). We found several characteristic clusters that exclusively contain HPV genomes from Japan: two for HPV16 (sublineages A4 and A5), one for HPV18 (sublineage A1) and two for HPV58 (sublineages A1 and A2). Bayesian phylogenetic analyses of concatenated viral gene sequences showed that divergence of the most recent common ancestor of these Japan-specific clades was estimated to have occurred ~98,000 years before present (YBP) for HPV16 A4, ~39,000 YBP for HPV16 A5, ~38,000 YBP for HPV18 A1, ~26,000 for HPV58 A1 and ~25,000 YBP for HPV58 A2. This estimated timeframe for the divergence of the Japan-specific clades suggests that the introduction of these HPV variants into the Japanese archipelago dates back to at least ~25,000 YBP and provides a scenario of virus co-migration with ancestral Japanese populations from continental Asia during the Upper Paleolithic period.
- Subjects
JAPAN; ANCIENT history; WHOLE genome sequencing; PAPILLOMAVIRUSES; PALEOLITHIC Period; MAXIMUM likelihood statistics; VIRAL genes
- Publication
Viruses (1999-4915), 2022, Vol 14, Issue 3, p464
- ISSN
1999-4915
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/v14030464