Empirical Bayes Estimation of Coalescence Times from Nucleotide Sequence Data
| Autor: | Léandra King, John Wakeley |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
Demographic history Locus (genetics) Investigations Biology 01 natural sciences Coalescent theory Evolution Molecular 010104 statistics & probability 03 medical and health sciences Bayes' theorem Genetics Humans Computer Simulation 0101 mathematics Phylogeny Empirical Bayes method Base Sequence Models Genetic Estimator Bayes Theorem Empirical distribution function Genetics Population 030104 developmental biology Asymptotically optimal algorithm Algorithms |
| Zdroj: | Genetics. 204:249-257 |
| ISSN: | 1943-2631 |
| DOI: | 10.1534/genetics.115.185751 |
| Popis: | We demonstrate the advantages of using information at many unlinked loci to better calibrate estimates of the time to the most recent common ancestor (TMRCA) at a given locus. To this end, we apply a simple empirical Bayes method to estimate the TMRCA. This method is both asymptotically optimal, in the sense that the estimator converges to the true value when the number of unlinked loci for which we have information is large, and has the advantage of not making any assumptions about demographic history. The algorithm works as follows: we first split the sample at each locus into inferred left and right clades to obtain many estimates of the TMRCA, which we can average to obtain an initial estimate of the TMRCA. We then use nucleotide sequence data from other unlinked loci to form an empirical distribution that we can use to improve this initial estimate. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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