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Molecular Biology and Evolution 18:2040-2047 (2001)
© 2001 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

Evaluation of Methods for Determination of a Reconstructed History of Gene Sequence Evolution

David A. Liberles

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Stockholm Bioinformatics Center, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

With whole-genome sequences being completed at an increasing rate, it is important to develop and assess tools to analyze them. Following annotation of the protein content of a genome, one can compare sequences with previously characterized homologous genes to detect novel functions within specific proteins in the evolution of the newly sequenced genome. One common statistical method to detect such changes is to compare the ratios of nonsynonymous (Ka) to synonymous (Ks) nucleotide substitution rates. Here, the effects of several parameters that can influence this calculation (sequence reconstruction method, phylogenetic tree branch length weighting, GC content, and codon bias) are examined. Also, two new alternative measures of adaptive evolution, the point accepted mutations (PAM)/neutral evolutionary distance (NED) ratio and the sequence space assessment (SSA) statistic are presented. All of these methods are compared using two sequence families: the recent divergence of leptin orthologs in primates, and the more ancient divergence of the deoxyribonucleoside kinase family. The examination of these and other measures to detect changes of gene function along branches of a phylogenetic tree will become increasingly important in the postgenomic era.


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