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dc.contributor.authorBergman, Juraj
dc.contributor.authorSchrempf, Dominik
dc.contributor.authorKosiol, Carolin
dc.contributor.authorVogl, Claus
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-10T09:37:37Z
dc.date.available2018-12-10T09:37:37Z
dc.date.issued2018-02-14
dc.identifier252117335
dc.identifier218a894a-9e90-488b-9a31-9c385d509887
dc.identifier29229523
dc.identifier85038017142
dc.identifier000422812200014
dc.identifier.citationBergman , J , Schrempf , D , Kosiol , C & Vogl , C 2018 , ' Inference in population genetics using forward and backward, discrete and continuous time processes ' , Journal of Theoretical Biology , vol. 439 , pp. 166-180 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2017.12.008en
dc.identifier.issn0022-5193
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/16653
dc.descriptionDS and CK were partially funded by FWF-P24551-B25. CK has been partially funded by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) through project MA16-061.en
dc.description.abstractA central aim of population genetics is the inference of the evolutionary history of a population. To this end, the underlying process can be represented by a model of the evolution of allele frequencies parametrized by e.g., the population size, mutation rates and selection coefficients. A large class of models use forward-in-time models, such as the discrete Wright-Fisher and Moran models and the continuous forward diffusion, to obtain distributions of population allele frequencies, conditional on an ancestral initial allele frequency distribution. Backward-in-time diffusion processes have been rarely used in the context of parameter inference. Here, we demonstrate how forward and backward diffusion processes can be combined to efficiently calculate the exact joint probability distribution of sample and population allele frequencies at all times in the past, for both discrete and continuous population genetics models. This procedure is analogous to the forward-backward algorithm of hidden Markov models. While the efficiency of discrete models is limited by the population size, for continuous models it suffices to expand the transition density in orthogonal polynomials of the order of the sample size to infer marginal likelihoods of population genetic parameters. Additionally, conditional allele trajectories and marginal likelihoods of samples from single populations or from multiple populations that split in the past can be obtained. The described approaches allow for efficient maximum likelihood inference of population genetic parameters in a wide variety of demographic scenarios.
dc.format.extent15
dc.format.extent988058
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Theoretical Biologyen
dc.subjectBi-allelic mutation-drift modelen
dc.subjectMarkov chainen
dc.subjectForward-backward algorithmen
dc.subjectForward-backward diffusionen
dc.subjectExact inferenceen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectQH426 Geneticsen
dc.subject3rd-NDASen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.subject.lccQH426en
dc.titleInference in population genetics using forward and backward, discrete and continuous time processesen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversityen
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jtbi.2017.12.008
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2018-12-09


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