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. 2001 Dec;159(4):1779-88.
doi: 10.1093/genetics/159.4.1779.

Directional selection and the site-frequency spectrum

C D Bustamante  1 , J Wakeley, S Sawyer, D L Hartl
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Directional selection and the site-frequency spectrum

C D Bustamante et al. Genetics. 2001 Dec.

Abstract

In this article we explore statistical properties of the maximum-likelihood estimates (MLEs) of the selection and mutation parameters in a Poisson random field population genetics model of directional selection at DNA sites. We derive the asymptotic variances and covariance of the MLEs and explore the power of the likelihood ratio tests (LRT) of neutrality for varying levels of mutation and selection as well as the robustness of the LRT to deviations from the assumption of free recombination among sites. We also discuss the coverage of confidence intervals on the basis of two standard-likelihood methods. We find that the LRT has high power to detect deviations from neutrality and that the maximum-likelihood estimation performs very well when the ancestral states of all mutations in the sample are known. When the ancestral states are not known, the test has high power to detect deviations from neutrality for negative selection but not for positive selection. We also find that the LRT is not robust to deviations from the assumption of independence among sites.

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