A Deep-Learning Approach for Inference of Selective Sweeps from the Ancestral Recombination Graph

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Detecting signals of selection from genomic data is a central problem in population genetics. Coupling the rich information in the ancestral recombination graph (ARG) with a powerful and scalable deep-learning framework, we developed a novel method to detect and quantify positive selection: Selection Inference using the Ancestral recombination graph (SIA). Built on a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) architecture, a particular type of a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), SIA can be trained to explicitly infer a full range of selection coefficients, as well as the allele frequency trajectory and time of selection onset. We benchmarked SIA extensively on simulations under a European human demographic model, and found that it performs as well or better as some of the best available methods, including state-of-the-art machine-learning and ARG-based methods. In addition, we used SIA to estimate selection coefficients at several loci associated with human phenotypes of interest. SIA detected novel signals of selection particular to the European (CEU) population at the MC1R and ABCC11 loci. In addition, it recapitulated signals of selection at the LCT locus and several pigmentation-related genes. Finally, we reanalyzed polymorphism data of a collection of recently radiated southern capuchino seedeater taxa in the genus Sporophila to quantify the strength of selection and improved the power of our previous methods to detect partial soft sweeps. Overall, SIA uses deep learning to leverage the ARG and thereby provides new insight into how selective sweeps shape genomic diversity.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:39

Enthalten in:

Molecular biology and evolution - 39(2022), 1 vom: 07. Jan.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hejase, Hussein A [VerfasserIn]
Mo, Ziyi [VerfasserIn]
Campagna, Leonardo [VerfasserIn]
Siepel, Adam [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Ancestral recombination graph
Journal Article
Machine learning
Positive selection
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Selective sweep

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Date Completed 31.03.2022

Date Revised 05.04.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/molbev/msab332

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM334252202