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Composite Likelihood Modeling of Neighboring Site Correlations of DNA Sequence Substitution Rates

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  • Deng Ling

    (Johnson & Johnson)

  • Moore Dirk F.

    (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey)

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Sequence data from a series of homologous DNA segments from related organisms are typically polymorphic at many sites, and these polymorphisms are the result of evolutionary processes. Such data may be used to estimate the substitution rates as well as the variability of these rates. Careful characterization of the distribution of this variation is essential for accurate estimation of evolutionary distances and phylogeny reconstruction among these sequences. Many researchers have recognized the importance of the variability of substitution rates, which most have modeled using a discrete gamma distribution. Some have extended these methods to explicitly account for the correlation of substitution rates among sites using hidden Markov models; others have proposed context-dependent substitution rate schemes. We accommodate these correlations using a composite likelihood method based on a bivariate gamma distribution, which is more flexible than hidden Markov models in terms of correlation structure and more computationally tractable compared to the context-dependent schemes. We show that the estimates have good theoretical properties. We also use simulations to compare the maximum composite likelihood estimates to those obtained from maximum likelihood based on the independence assumption. We use data from the mitochondrial DNA of ten primates to obtain maximum composite likelihood estimates of the mean substitution rate, overdispersion, and correlation parameters, and use these estimates in a parametric phylogenetic bootstrap to assess the impact of serial correlation on the estimates of substitution rates and branch lengths.

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  • Deng Ling & Moore Dirk F., 2009. "Composite Likelihood Modeling of Neighboring Site Correlations of DNA Sequence Substitution Rates," Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, De Gruyter, vol. 8(1), pages 1-22, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:sagmbi:v:8:y:2009:i:1:n:6
    DOI: 10.2202/1544-6115.1391
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