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These outbreaks highlighted the need for better tools for identifying the genetic basis for transmission-rate variation. Here, we develop a Bayesian method based on a stochastic birth-death-mutation-sampling model for estimating which nucleotide mutations increase rates of transmission using viral genome sequences. We use simulation to show that the approach accurately discriminates between mutations that increase the transmission rate and those that do not. 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