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Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol 11, 620-629, Copyright © 1994 by Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

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Detecting substitution-rate heterogeneity among regions of a nucleotide sequence

BS Gaut and BS Weir
Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh 27695-8203.

Likelihood-ratio statistics are proposed to test for heterogeneity in nucleotide substitution rate among regions of a DNA sequence. The tests examine three-sequence phylogenies, and two specific tests are proposed: a test to detect rate heterogeneity among genic regions within a sequence, over all evolutionary lineages; and a test to detect rate heterogeneity among regions in a specific evolutionary lineage. Simulations examine the ability of tests to detect a single region that varies in nucleotide substitution rate relative to the remainder of the sequence. A 50-bp region with a fivefold substitution-rate increase can be detected > or = 90% of the time when it is found in all three lineages of the phylogeny, and a 50-bp region of fivefold rate increase can be detected with approximately 70% power when it is found in only one evolutionary lineage. Simulation also examines the effect of transition- and transversion-rate differences. The tests are applied to published DNA sequences. While the tests are powerful, significant results can be difficult to interpret biologically.
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