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Redlich R, Kowalczyk A, Tene M, Sestili HH, Foley K, Saputra E, Clark N, Chikina M, Meyer WK, Pfenning A. RERconverge Expansion: Using Relative Evolutionary Rates to Study Complex Categorical Trait Evolution. bioRxiv 2023:2023.12.06.570425. [PMID: 38106136 PMCID: PMC10723433 DOI: 10.1101/2023.12.06.570425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2023]
Abstract
Comparative genomics approaches seek to associate evolutionary genetic changes with the evolution of phenotypes across a phylogeny. Many of these methods, including our evolutionary rates based method, RERconverge, lack the capability of analyzing non-ordinal, multicategorical traits. To address this limitation, we introduce an expansion to RERconverge that associates shifts in evolutionary rates with the convergent evolution of multi-categorical traits. The categorical RERconverge expansion includes methods for performing categorical ancestral state reconstruction, statistical tests for associating relative evolutionary rates with categorical variables, and a new method for performing phylogenetic permulations on multi-categorical traits. In addition to demonstrating our new method on a three-category diet phenotype, we compare its performance to naive pairwise binary RERconverge analyses and two existing methods for comparative genomic analyses of categorical traits: phylogenetic simulations and a phylogenetic signal based method. We also present a diagnostic analysis of the new permulations approach demonstrating how the method scales with the number of species and the number of categories included in the analysis. Our results show that our new categorical method outperforms phylogenetic simulations at identifying genes and enriched pathways significantly associated with the diet phenotype and that the new ancestral reconstruction drives an improvement in our ability to capture diet-related enriched pathways. Our categorical permulations were able to account for non-uniform null distributions and correct for non-independence in gene rank during pathway enrichment analysis. The categorical expansion to RERconverge will provide a strong foundation for applying the comparative method to categorical traits on larger data sets with more species and more complex trait evolution.
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Saputra E, Kowalczyk A, Cusick L, Clark N, Chikina M. Phylogenetic Permulations: A Statistically Rigorous Approach to Measure Confidence in Associations in a Phylogenetic Context. Mol Biol Evol 2021; 38:3004-3021. [PMID: 33739420 PMCID: PMC8233500 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
Abstract
Many evolutionary comparative methods seek to identify associations between phenotypic traits or between traits and genotypes, often with the goal of inferring potential functional relationships between them. Comparative genomics methods aimed at this goal measure the association between evolutionary changes at the genetic level with traits evolving convergently across phylogenetic lineages. However, these methods have complex statistical behaviors that are influenced by nontrivial and oftentimes unknown confounding factors. Consequently, using standard statistical analyses in interpreting the outputs of these methods leads to potentially inaccurate conclusions. Here, we introduce phylogenetic permulations, a novel statistical strategy that combines phylogenetic simulations and permutations to calculate accurate, unbiased P values from phylogenetic methods. Permulations construct the null expectation for P values from a given phylogenetic method by empirically generating null phenotypes. Subsequently, empirical P values that capture the true statistical confidence given the correlation structure in the data are directly calculated based on the empirical null expectation. We examine the performance of permulation methods by analyzing both binary and continuous phenotypes, including marine, subterranean, and long-lived large-bodied mammal phenotypes. Our results reveal that permulations improve the statistical power of phylogenetic analyses and correctly calibrate statements of confidence in rejecting complex null distributions while maintaining or improving the enrichment of known functions related to the phenotype. We also find that permulations refine pathway enrichment analyses by correcting for nonindependence in gene ranks. Our results demonstrate that permulations are a powerful tool for improving statistical confidence in the conclusions of phylogenetic analysis when the parametric null is unknown.
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Affiliation(s)
- Elysia Saputra
- Joint Carnegie Mellon University - University of Pittsburgh PhD Program in Computational Biology, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.,Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Joint Carnegie Mellon University - University of Pittsburgh PhD Program in Computational Biology, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.,Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.,Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.,Pittsburgh Center for Evolutionary Biology and Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Astutik DM, Sulmartiwi L, Saputra E, Pujiastuti DY. The effect addition of kappa carrageenan flour to the level of gel strength and acceptability of dumpling from threadfin bream fish (Nemipterus nematophorus) surimi. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2020. [DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/441/1/012003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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