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Population and Comparative Genomics Flashcards

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what is population genomics?

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gives a comprehensive picture of genetic variation within species by looking at whole genomes

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what features can we characterize using population genetics?

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  • demogrpahy

- natural selection (purifying, adpative, balancing)

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what is the first stage of gathering population genetics data and what does it entail?

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  1. hypothesis/query

- need to know what you want to find out

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what is the second stage of gathering population genetics data and what does it entail?

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  1. sample collection and DNA extraction
    - choose 100s/1000s of individuals information
    - choose geographic/habitat of interest
    - extract genomic DNA
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what is the third stage of gathering population genetics data and what does it entail?

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  1. genome sequencing
    - sequence the DNA, reads are from sections of the genome
    - want lots of reads
    - obtain sequence coveraring 5-40x coverage
    - sequene genome using ‘short’ read technology
    - main issue here is cost
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what is the fourth stage of gathering population genetics data and what does it entail?

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  1. read mapping and ‘variant calling’
    - locate genetic variants (sites of the genome that differ)
    - find where each read matches to the genome
    - looking for polymorphisms
    - use SNPs and indels
    - can map sequence reads to a reference genome and identify sites that differ
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what is the fifth stage of gathering population genetics data and what does it entail?

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  1. segregating genetic vairants
    - as a result of read mapping you want a list of positions that vary
    - alleles/polymorphisms/variants
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what is the sixth stage of gathering population genetics data and what does it entail?

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  1. analysis
    - analyse certain sites and use their traits to determine which alleles have an effect on a particular trait
    - describing demogrpah
    - detecting selection
    - quantitative genetics like GWAS
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what is sanger seqeuncing?

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  • small scale (not high throughput)
  • technology of hcoice for low-medium output sequencing
  • can use it for one gene
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what is illumina?

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  • produces vast numbers of reads
  • much quicker, short lengths of sequences
  • technology of choice for genome re-sequencing
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what is PACBIO?

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  • pacific biosciences
  • produces larger reads
  • fairly accurate
  • one technology of choice for genome assemblies
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what is the oxford nanopore?

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  • produces very long reads (up to 40,000 nucleotides long)
  • advancing fast but more expensive
  • has the worst error rate
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what is meant by demography?

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  • estimates of population size (can also estimate population size backwards through time)
  • population structure (which individuals are more or less closely related)
    • migration and ‘gene flow’ between populations
  • inbreeding/outbreeding rates
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what is selection in population genetics?

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which regions of the genome are subject to strong purifying selection (remove bad mutation)

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what is an example of quantitative genetics?

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GWAS: which alleles contribute to traits

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how are demography, selection and quantitative genetics interrelated?

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  • expanding and shrinking population sizes effect selection
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what is the concept of genetic diversity in population genetics?

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within a region of a genome there are different amounts of diversity

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what are polymorphisms/alleles/variants?

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  • sites in the genome that differ between individuals of a species
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what are SNPs?

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  • single nucleotide polymorphisms

- these are the most common

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what are indels?

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  • small insertions or deletions
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what is the human genome comosed mostly of?

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transposons

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what are examples of structural variants?

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duplications, rearrangements, large inserrtions/deletions

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what is the initial origin of variation?

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a mutation in one individual

- all polymorphisms start with a single mutation in the popultaion

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how can polymorphisms move?

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through space and time within a population

- their frequency will change

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how will a polymorphism occur in a population?

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  • get two separated population
  • one gene gets across
  • a mutation is shared
  • over time it would increase
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what are most mutations?

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  • neutral

- deleterious adnd therefor elost

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what happens if variants are physically linked on the chromosome?

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they tend to travel together but can become unlinked through recombinations

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what is the concept GWAS?

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  • GWAS
  • lots of data is in a matrix (0s and 1s)
  • want to use summary statistics - summarising information in one number
  • average pairwise similarity
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what does S stand for?

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the number of segreagating sites

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what is MAF?

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  • minor allele frequency
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what is DAF?

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derived allele frequency (frequency of new allele in populate)

  • need to know the ancestral genome
  • DAFs are rare as they tend to get lost - suggests adaptation
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what is the concept of Tajimas D?

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describes whether you have more or less rare alleles than expected

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what happens if you have a negative tajimas D?

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  • have more rare alleles then you expect
  • happens when theres a selective sweep (new mutations throughout the population)
  • or expanding population
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what happens if you have a positive tajimas D?

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  • too few rare alleles
  • signal of balancing selection
  • shrinking population
  • population structure
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what happens if tajimas D =0?

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neutrally evolving, stable population

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what is the concept of population structure?

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  • when you have individuals more likely to breed with each other than another set
  • can see this through genomes
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how can you look at population structure?

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  • genomes
  • act as markers to track evolution
  • when people etc move they carry DNA
  • populations somtimes have small contributions which cant be drawn on a phylogenetic tree
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what are the rules of population strutcure?

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mutations are rare, drift through populations, recombinations

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what is the concept of purifying selection?

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  • loss of deleterious alleles
  • they are removed from the population
  • they are less fit so they die/produce less offspringg
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what does the process of purifying selection result in?

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  • reduces diverstiy in regions that are important
  • increase proportion of rare alleles
  • causes a negative tajimas D
  • purifying selection expected to be a common event
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what is the properties of most new mutations?

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deleterious

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why do exons have much lower diversity?

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  • mutations are more likely to be deleterious

- exons have an important function so deleterious mutations are removed quickly

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what is the concept of adaptive evolution?

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  • new mutation is helpful and increases to become more common in the population
  • has similar effects to purifying selection (difficult to differentiate)
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what does the process of adaptive evolution do?

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  • reduces diversity around the beneficial allele
  • increases rare alleles
  • causes a negative Tajimas D
  • adaptive selection is expected to be a rare event
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why is adaptive evolution rare?

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a mutation causing a beneficial adaptation through a random change will be rare

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what is a selective sweep?

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overtime not only will the beneficial allele become more common but so will the linked alleles

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what is a haplotype?

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  • region of the genome with alleles that are linked
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what is the concept of balancing selection?

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  • advantage to maintaining more than one allele in a population
  • very rare
  • when the heterozygous are fitter
  • advantage of rare alleles but when they become common they are less advantageous
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what are the results of balancing selection?

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  • maintains more diversity

- cause a high tajimas D

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what is the concept of polygenic selection?

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  • GWAS shows that most traits are determined by multiple genes
  • called complex traits
  • selection acts on all the alleles at once
  • there is therefore selection for multiple genes
  • when these traits evovle many alleels traits
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what is the concept of linkage of alleles on the chromosome?

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  • when a strongly beneficial allele arise it will ‘sweep’ through the population
  • arises very quickly
  • alleles close to it will be carried because they are linked
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what are the results of linkage of alleles on the chromosome?

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  • loss of diversity around the sweep
  • increase in linkage
  • produces a large loss of genetic diversity (always the same)
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what happens when recombination occurs?

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linked alleles can become unlinked

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what is comparative genomics?

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  • the comparison of genomes between species
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what does comparative genetics involve the analysis of?

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  • gene orthologs/paralogs, gene family expansions
  • gene loss/gain
  • evolutionary rate of genes
  • conserved genic and non-genic regions
  • conservation/changes in synteny (gene order)
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what are orthologs?

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gene which is from a recent ancestor between species

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what are paralogs?

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gene which is from a recent ancestor within species

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what is the first stage of collecting comparative genomics data?

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  1. sequence and assembly a genome
    - choose the organisms interested in
    - assembly: connecting ll short/long sequencing reads in continuous seqeunces
    - sequnce machines are generally shprt reads
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what is the second stage of collecting comparative genomics data?

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  1. annotate your genome (identify gene starts, ends, exons and identify gene types homology)
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what is the third stage of collecting comparative genomics data?

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  1. align/ compare your genome to others
    - whole genome alignment
    - using BLAST to locate similar genes
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what is comparative genomic data produced on?

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linux server - large amount of data with a lot of processing required

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what can be found from comparative genmoics?

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  • Which genes have been lost in a lineage
  • When genes have been gained  created through things like gene fusion
  • Which are the fastest evolving genes
  • Conserved genic and non-genic regions
  • How a species may have evolved to adapt to some new niche  how a particular species has evolved and adapt says something about long term evolution
  • The higher the peak the slower the rate = more conserved  purifying selection removes deleterious alleles
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what is the concept of diversity of divergence are related in comparative genomics?

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genetic diveristy within species gives rise to divergence between species

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what is genetic diveristy?

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differences within species

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what is divergence?

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differences between species

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what are exons?

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evolve slowly, mutations most often remove

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what is an example of genetic diveristy giving rise to divergence?

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  • one population splits into two population
  • at some point there is no interbreeding
  • different alleles become fixed independently through mutations arising
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what is fixation?

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when a polymorphism becomes present in all individuals in a species (or population)

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what is the concept of evolutionary rate in comparative genomics?

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  • evolutionary rate is the number of differences that occur over time or how many mutations are fixed in a population over time
  • measure via alignments from genes and genomes
  • every genome evolves at a different rate
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how can evolutionary rates be measured?

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  • substitutions/year: certain numbers of substitutions per year (have to know the years they’ve been separated)
  • substitutions/gene or per site between two or more species
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what is the concept of purifying selection in comparative genomics?

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  • selection to remove deleterious mutations

- over time this results in slower rates of evolution in regions of the genome with more essential function

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what are introns?

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  • not conserved and are therefore not removed by purifying selection
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what happens if regions are more highly conserved?

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  • suggests that the regions are more important
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how can purifying selection be detected in comparative genomics?

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  • via genome alignment
  • looking for regions that remain the same between species
  • can show evolutionary rate: slower rates of evolution result in more important regions being conserved
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what is synonymous change?

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does not change the amino acid encoded for, would therefore not have a strong genetic outcome

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what is non-synonymous change?

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  • does change the amino acid encoded for

- more likely to have functional consequence (which will generally be deleterious)

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is the rate of synonymous change slower than non-synonymous change?

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no

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what is the concept of adaptive evolution in comparative genetics?

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  • increase frequency of adaptive allele
  • some genes/genomic regions evolve to have new/improved functions
  • this is one path to adaptation
  • such genes change faster than we expect by chance
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what tests can be use to measure adaptive evolution in comparative genetics?

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  1. the dN/dS test

2. the McDonald-Kreitman test

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what is the dN/dS test?

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  • dN: the rate of non-synonymous change
  • dS: the rate of synonymous change
  • gene that change their function rapidly may have a higher dN than dS
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what is the McDonald-Kreitman test?

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  • use for detecting adaptive change between species

- and for detecting balancing selection within species

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what is the rate of synonymous change (dS)?

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  • synonymous change does not affect the protein produced
  • will have little or no effect on the fitness of the organims and so are selectively neutral and will accumulate
  • sometimes they can result in non-optimal codon (rare)
  • if species are far apart this rate needs to be corrected for multiple hits
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what is the rate of non-synonymous change (dN)?

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  • non-synonymous change does affect the protein produced
  • most will be deleterious and lost
  • so the dN rate will generally be slower than the dS rate
  • hence the dN/dS rate is generally less than 1
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what does it suggest if dN>ds?

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  • there has been many non-synonymous changes

- this is rare and a signature of adaptive evolution

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what is the concept of polygenic selection and genome-scale data in comparative genomics?

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  • SNPs in many genes can affect one trait
  • adaptation may cause gradual changes in many genes
  • can detect this by looking for concerted signals over certain categories of genes that work together
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what is the assumption of the McDOnald-Kreitman test?

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tests the assumption that diversity within a species gives rise to divergence between species (assumes theres a stable ratio)

  • assumes a stable ratio of synonymous and non-synonymous polymorphisms
  • over time polymorphisms become fixed
  • gives rise to the same ratio of synonymous and non-synoymous fixed mutations
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how can you test the McDonald-Kreitman test?

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  • using the chi squared test
  • count that sites that are synonymous and non-synobymous
  • chi-squared
  • find if the rate is stable
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what is the result of a McDonald-Kreitman test for a neutrally evolving gene?

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  • ratio will be consistent
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what is the result of a McDonald-Kreitman test for an excess of non-synonymous fixed differences (a non consistent ratio)?

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adaptive evolution between species

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what is the result of a McDonald-Kreitman test for an excess of non-synonymous polymorphisms within a species (a non-consistent ratio)?

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balancing selection to maintain different non-synonymous differences within species

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