The yule approximation for the site frequency spectrum after a selective sweep.

ABSTRACT: In the area of evolutionary theory, a key question is which portions of the genome of a species are targets of natural selection. Genetic hitchhiking is a theoretical concept that has helped to identify various such targets in natural populations. In the presence of recombination, a severe reduction in sequence diversity is expected around a strongly beneficial allele. The site frequency spectrum is an important tool in genome scans for selection and is composed of the numbers S(1),...,S(n-1), where S(k) is the number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) present in k from n individuals. Previous work has shown that both the number of low- and high-frequency variants are elevated relative to neutral evolution when a strongly beneficial allele fixes. Here, we follow a recent investigati

SUBMITTER: Bossert S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3858263 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature