Molecular Biology and Evolution 19:2092-2100 (2002)
© 2002 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
Statistical Properties of New Neutrality Tests Against Population Growth
Departament de Genètica, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona
A number of statistical tests for detecting population growth are described. We compared the statistical power of these tests with that of others available in the literature. The tests evaluated fall into three categories: those tests based on the distribution of the mutation frequencies, on the haplotype distribution, and on the mismatch distribution. We found that, for an extensive variety of cases, the most powerful tests for detecting population growth are Fu's FS test and the newly developed R2 test. The behavior of the R2 test is superior for small sample sizes, whereas FS is better for large sample sizes. We also show that some popular statistics based on the mismatch distribution are very conservative.
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