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Originally published as Genetics Published Articles Ahead of Print on November 16, 2006.

Genetics, Vol. 175, 737-750, February 2007, Copyright © 2007
doi:10.1534/genetics.106.064642

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Controlling the False-Positive Rate in Multilocus Genome Scans for Selection

Kevin R. Thornton1 and Jeffrey D. Jensen

Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853

1 Corresponding author: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697.
E-mail: krthornt{at}uci.edu

Rapid typing of genetic variation at many regions of the genome is an efficient way to survey variability in natural populations in an effort to identify segments of the genome that have experienced recent natural selection. Following such a genome scan, individual regions may be chosen for further sequencing and a more detailed analysis of patterns of variability, often to perform a parametric test for selection and to estimate the strength of a recent selective sweep. We show here that not accounting for the ascertainment of loci in such analyses leads to false inference of natural selection when the true model is selective neutrality, because the procedure of choosing unusual loci (in comparison to the rest of the genome-scan data) selects regions of the genome with genealogies similar to those expected under models of recent directional selection. We describe a simple and efficient correction for this ascertainment bias, which restores the false-positive rate to near-nominal levels. For the parameters considered here, we find that obtaining a test with the expected distribution of P-values depends on accurately accounting both for ascertainment of regions and for demography. Finally, we use simulations to explore the utility of relying on outlier loci to detect recent selective sweeps. We find that measures of diversity and of population differentiation are more effective than summaries of the site-frequency spectrum and that sequencing larger regions (2.5 kbp) in genome-scan studies leads to more power to detect recent selective sweeps.




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