Patterns of Evolution
Summary statistics based on segregating sites
Site Frequency Spectrum
4 3 2 1 1 1
0 1 2 3
1 2 3 4 5
Patterns of Evolution
Summary statistics based on segregating sites
Site Frequency Spectrum
total number of segregating sites in an sample of size n
number of mutants that appear in i copies
in the sample
:
1
1
ni
S
iS
0 1 2 3
1 2 3 4 5
i
:
S S
i: )
1
1(
2 1
ni
n
i n i S
i
average number of pairwise differences
i
: )
1
1(
2 1
ni
n
i n i S
i
Patterns of Evolution
Summary statistics based on segregating sites
Site Frequency Spectrum
total number of segregating sites in an sample of size n
number of mutants that appear in i copies
in the sample
:
1
1
ni
S
iS
i
: S
Each mutation of size
i
contributes to divergence in
i (n – i)
sequence pairs0 1 2 3
1 2 3 4 5
S
ii
Coalescent Theory
Estimators
Unbiased estimators of the mutation parameter q = 4Nu:
11 1
1
ˆ
n1
i n
i
i n
W
S i
a q S
singleton estimator:
ˆ
s 1 S
1 S
n1
n q n
Watterson‘s estimator:
-based estimator:
i n
i
n
i ( n i ) S
ˆ
11 1
2
q
singletons of the folded spectrum
i n
i n
H
i S
1 1 1 2 2q ˆ
Fay and Wu‘s estimator:
(equal weights)
(intermediate frequencies)
(high frequencies)
(extreme frequencies)
Coalescent Theory
Test statistics
Test statistics for the deviation from neutrality :
W
W
D
Tq q
q q
ˆ Var ˆ
ˆ ˆ
Tajima‘s D:
Fay and Wu‘s H:
Fu and Li‘s D:
W S
S W
D
FLq q
q q
ˆ Var ˆ
ˆ ˆ
H
H
H
FWq q
q q
ˆ Var ˆ
ˆ ˆ
00,2 0,4 0,6 0,8 1
1 2 3 4 5 6
0
D
TCoalescent Theory
Test statistics
Test statistics for the deviation from neutrality :
W
W
D
Tq q
q q
ˆ Var ˆ
ˆ ˆ
Tajima‘s D:
Fay and Wu‘s H:
Fu and Li‘s D:
W S
S W
D
FLq q
q q
ˆ Var ˆ
ˆ ˆ
H
H
H
FWq q
q q
ˆ Var ˆ
ˆ ˆ
00,2 0,4 0,6 0,8 1
1 2 3 4 5 6
0
D
TCoalescent Theory
Test statistics
Test statistics for the deviation from neutrality :
W
W
D
Tq q
q q
ˆ Var ˆ
ˆ ˆ
Tajima‘s D:
Fay and Wu‘s H:
Fu and Li‘s D:
W S
S W
D
FLq q
q q
ˆ Var ˆ
ˆ ˆ
H
H
H
FWq q
q q
ˆ Var ˆ
ˆ ˆ
00,2 0,4 0,6 0,8 1
1 2 3 4 5 6
0
D
FWCoalescent Theory
Test statistics
Test statistics for the deviation from neutrality :
W
W
D
Tq q
q q
ˆ Var ˆ
ˆ ˆ
Tajima‘s D:
Fay and Wu‘s H:
Fu and Li‘s D:
W S
S W
D
FLq q
q q
ˆ Var ˆ
ˆ ˆ
H
H
H
FWq q
q q
ˆ Var ˆ
ˆ ˆ
00,2 0,4 0,6 0,8 1
1 2 3 4 5 6