Improved tests for heterogeneity across a region of DNA sequence in the ratio of polymorphism to divergence |
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Authors: | McDonald JH |
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Institution: | Department of Biology, University of Delaware, Newark, USA. mcdonald@udel.edu |
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Abstract: | The neutral theory of molecular evolution predicts that the ratio of
polymorphisms to fixed differences should be fairly uniform across a region
of DNA sequence. Significant heterogeneity in this ratio can indicate the
effects of balancing selection, selective sweeps, mildly deleterious
mutations, or background selection. Comparing an observed heterogeneity
statistic with simulations of the heterogeneity resulting from random
phylogenetic and sampling variation provides a test of the statistical
significance of the observed pattern. When simulated data sets containing
heterogeneity in the polymorphism-to-divergence ratio are examined,
different statistics are most powerful for detecting different patterns of
heterogeneity. The number of runs is most powerful for detecting patterns
containing several peaks of polymorphism; the Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic
is most powerful for detecting patterns in which one end of the gene has
high polymorphism and the other end has low polymorphism; and a newly
developed statistic, the mean sliding G statistic, is most powerful for
detecting patterns containing one or two peaks of polymorphism with reduced
polymorphism on either side. Nine out of 27 genes from the Drosophila
melanogaster subgroup exhibit heterogeneity that is significant under at
least one of these three tests, with five of the nine remaining significant
after a correction for multiple comparisons, suggesting that detectable
evidence for the effects of some kind of selection is fairly common.
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