The document presents a new approximation called Beta with spikes to model allele frequency data under the Wright-Fisher model of genetic drift, mutation, and selection. The Beta with spikes approximation fits the true Wright-Fisher model better than the commonly used Beta distribution approximation. Simulation results show the Beta with spikes approximation estimates population split times similarly to methods based on the diffusion approximation but more accurately than the Beta distribution approximation. Future work will focus on inferring parameters like mutation rates, selection coefficients, and variable population sizes using the Beta with spikes approximation.
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1. Betaspikes
The Beta distribution approach
PAULA TATARU
AARHUS
UNIVERSITY
Bioinformatics
Research Centre
Oxford, July 19th 2014
Modelling allele frequency data under the
Wright Fisher model of drift, mutation and selection
Joint work with Asger Hobolth and Thomas Bataillon
2. Allele frequencies: the Beta distribution approach
Paula Tataru paula@birc.au.dk
AARHUS
UNIVERSITY
Bioinformatics
Research Centre
Motivation
›Infer population parameters from DNA data
› mutation rates
› selection coefficients
› split times
› variable population size back in time
›Backward in time (coalescent)
›Forward in time (Wright Fisher)
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The Wright Fisher model
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The Wright Fisher model
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The Wright Fisher model
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›Diffusion
› Kimura 1964
› Gautier & Vitalis 2013
› Malaspinas et al. 2012
› Steinrucken et al. 2013
› Zhao et al. 2013
›Moment based
› Normal distribution
› Nicholson et al. 2002
› Prickrell & Pritchard 2012
› Beta distribution
› Balding & Nichols 1995
› Siren et al. 2011
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Approximations to the WF
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Paula Tataru paula@birc.au.dk
AARHUS
UNIVERSITY
Bioinformatics
Research Centre
›Diffusion
› Kimura 1964
› Gautier & Vitalis 2013
› Malaspinas et al. 2012
› Steinrucken et al. 2013
› Zhao et al. 2013
›Moment based
› Normal distribution
› Nicholson et al. 2002
› Prickrell & Pritchard 2012
› Beta distribution
› Balding & Nichols 1995
› Siren et al. 2011
› Beta with spikes
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Approximations to the WF
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The Beta approximation
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The Beta approximation
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The Beta approximation
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The Beta with spikes approximation
›The density of Xt
›Use recursive approach to calculate
› mean and variance
› loss and fixation probabilities
› mean and variance conditional on polymorphism
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›Hellinger distance
› true vs approximated distributions
› between 0 and 1
›Stationary: Beta distribution
›Diffusion > Beta with spikes > Beta
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The Beta with spikes: worst fit
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The Beta with spikes: worst fit
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The Beta with spikes: worst fit
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Inference of split times
›Felsenstein’s peeling algorithm
›Numerically optimized likelihood
›5000 loci
›100 samples in each population
›40 data sets
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Conclusions
›Beta with spikes: new approximation to the WF
› Quality of approximation
› Consistent
› Diffusion > Beta with spikes > Beta
› Inference of split times
› Beta with spikes ~ Kim Tree
› Diffusion ?
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Future work
›Inference of
› mutation rates
› selection coefficients
› variable population size
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The Beta approximation
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Mean and variance
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Loss and fixation probabilities
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