Who Acquires Infections from Whom - Neutral Allele Frequencies Can Tell

Learn how neutral allele frequencies can reveal infection transmission patterns in this 33-minute conference talk from the Workshop on "Extremal Statistics in Biology" at the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics. Discover the mathematical and biological principles behind using genetic markers to trace who acquires infections from whom, exploring the intersection of population genetics and epidemiology. Examine how neutral genetic variations serve as molecular tracers to understand transmission dynamics and infection spread patterns within populations. Gain insights into the statistical methods and theoretical frameworks that connect allele frequency data to epidemiological inference, providing a novel approach to understanding disease transmission networks through genetic analysis.