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Accepted January 25, 2005

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Bayes Empirical Bayes Inference of Amino Acid Sites under Positive Selection

Ziheng Yang 1, Wendy S.W. Wong 2, and Rasmus Nielsen 3*

1 Department of Biology, University College London, London, UK
2 Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
3 Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA; Center for Bioinformatics, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Kbh Ø, Denmark

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Rasmus Nielsen, E-mail: rasmus{at}binf.ku.dk


   Abstract

Codon-based substitution models have been widely used to identify amino acid sites under positive selection in comparative analysis of protein-coding DNA sequences. The nonsynonymous/synonymous substitution rate ratio (dN/dS, denoted {omega}) is used as a measure of selective pressure at the protein level, with {omega} > 1 indicating positive selection. Statistical distributions are used to model the variation in {omega} among sites, allowing a subset of sites to have {omega} > 1 while the rest of the sequence may be under purifying selection with {omega} < 1. An Empirical Bayes (EB) approach is then used to calculate posterior probabilities that a site comes from the site class with {omega} > 1. Current implementations, however, use the naïve EB (NEB) approach and fail to account for sampling errors in maximum likelihood estimates of model parameters, such as the proportions and {omega} ratios for the site classes. In small data sets lacking information, this approach may lead to unreliable posterior probability calculations. In this paper, we develop a Bayes Empirical Bayes (BEB) approach to the problem, which assigns a prior to the model parameters and integrates over their uncertainties. We compare the new and old methods on real and simulated data sets. The results suggest that in small data sets the new BEB method does not generate false positives as did the old NEB approach, while in large data sets it retains the good power of the NEB approach for inferring positively selected sites.

Keywords: Positive Selection; Codon substitution models; Bayes Empirical Bayes.
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L. Abi-Rached, K. Dorighi, P. J. Norman, M. Yawata, and P. Parham
Episodes of Natural Selection Shaped the Interactions of IgA-Fc with Fc{alpha}RI and Bacterial Decoy Proteins
J. Immunol., June 15, 2007; 178(12): 7943 - 7954.
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Mol Biol EvolHome page
T. J. Barkman, T. R. Martins, E. Sutton, and J. T. Stout
Positive Selection for Single Amino Acid Change Promotes Substrate Discrimination of a Plant Volatile-Producing Enzyme
Mol. Biol. Evol., June 1, 2007; 24(6): 1320 - 1329.
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Mol Biol EvolHome page
V. Ruano-Rubio and M. A. Fares
Testing the Neutral Fixation of Hetero-Oligomerism in the Archaeal Chaperonin CCT
Mol. Biol. Evol., June 1, 2007; 24(6): 1384 - 1396.
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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USAHome page
F. D. Frentiu, G. D. Bernard, C. I. Cuevas, M. P. Sison-Mangus, K. L. Prudic, and A. D. Briscoe
Colloquium Papers: Adaptive evolution of color vision as seen through the eyes of butterflies
PNAS, May 15, 2007; 104(suppl_1): 8634 - 8640.
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Mol Biol EvolHome page
M. Anisimova and Z. Yang
Multiple Hypothesis Testing to Detect Lineages under Positive Selection that Affects Only a Few Sites
Mol. Biol. Evol., May 1, 2007; 24(5): 1219 - 1228.
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ReproductionHome page
C. A Swann, S. J B Cooper, and W. G Breed
Molecular evolution of the carboxy terminal region of the zona pellucida 3 glycoprotein in murine rodents
Reproduction, April 1, 2007; 133(4): 697 - 708.
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Mol Biol EvolHome page
T. Hernandez-Hernandez, L. P. Martinez-Castilla, and E. R. Alvarez-Buylla
Functional Diversification of B MADS-Box Homeotic Regulators of Flower Development: Adaptive Evolution in Protein-Protein Interaction Domains after Major Gene Duplication Events
Mol. Biol. Evol., February 1, 2007; 24(2): 465 - 481.
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Mol Biol EvolHome page
M. L. Porter, T. W. Cronin, D. A. McClellan, and K. A. Crandall
Molecular Characterization of Crustacean Visual Pigments and the Evolution of Pancrustacean Opsins
Mol. Biol. Evol., January 1, 2007; 24(1): 253 - 268.
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Integr. Comp. Biol.Home page
S. Cohen, J. Tirindelli, M. Gomez-Chiarri, and D. Nacci
Functional implications of Major Histocompatibility (MH) variation using estuarine fish populations
Integr. Comp. Biol., December 1, 2006; 46(6): 1016 - 1029.
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Mol Biol EvolHome page
L. Yu and Y.-p. Zhang
The Unusual Adaptive Expansion of Pancreatic Ribonuclease Gene in Carnivora
Mol. Biol. Evol., December 1, 2006; 23(12): 2326 - 2335.
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Mol Biol EvolHome page
M. R. Pie
The Influence of Phylogenetic Uncertainty on the Detection of Positive Darwinian Selection
Mol. Biol. Evol., December 1, 2006; 23(12): 2274 - 2278.
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Mol Biol EvolHome page
Z. Yang
On the Varied Pattern of Evolution of 2 Fungal Genomes: A Critique of Hughes and Friedman
Mol. Biol. Evol., December 1, 2006; 23(12): 2279 - 2282.
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Genome ResHome page
S. Foret and R. Maleszka
Function and evolution of a gene family encoding odorant binding-like proteins in a social insect, the honey bee (Apis mellifera)
Genome Res., November 1, 2006; 16(11): 1404 - 1413.
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J. Bacteriol.Home page
T. H. M. Mes and M. Doeleman
Positive Selection on Transposase Genes of Insertion Sequences in the Crocosphaera watsonii Genome.
J. Bacteriol., October 1, 2006; 188(20): 7176 - 7185.
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G. Hall
Selective constraint and genetic differentiation in geographically distant barley yellow dwarf virus populations.
J. Gen. Virol., October 1, 2006; 87(Pt 10): 3067 - 3075.
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Mol Biol EvolHome page
L. M. Turner and H. E. Hoekstra
Adaptive Evolution of Fertilization Proteins within a Genus: Variation in ZP2 and ZP3 in Deer Mice (Peromyscus)
Mol. Biol. Evol., September 1, 2006; 23(9): 1656 - 1669.
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BioinformaticsHome page
I. Dupanloup and H. Kaessmann
Evolutionary simulations to detect functional lineage-specific genes
Bioinformatics, August 1, 2006; 22(15): 1815 - 1822.
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GeneticsHome page
T. M. Panhuis and W. J. Swanson
Molecular Evolution and Population Genetic Analysis of Candidate Female Reproductive Genes in Drosophila
Genetics, August 1, 2006; 173(4): 2039 - 2047.
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Nucleic Acids ResHome page
L. Conde, J. M. Vaquerizas, H. Dopazo, L. Arbiza, J. Reumers, F. Rousseau, J. Schymkowitz, and J. Dopazo
PupaSuite: finding functional single nucleotide polymorphisms for large-scale genotyping purposes.
Nucleic Acids Res., July 1, 2006; 34(Web Server issue): W621 - W625.
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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USAHome page
M. Benderoth, S. Textor, A. J. Windsor, T. Mitchell-Olds, J. Gershenzon, and J. Kroymann
Positive selection driving diversification in plant secondary metabolism
PNAS, June 13, 2006; 103(24): 9118 - 9123.
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