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ArticleJournal of computational biology : a journal of computational molecular cell biology2012

Expectation-maximization algorithm for determining natural selection of Y-linked genes through two-sex branching processes.

M González, C Gutiérrez, R Martínez

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M GonzálezDepartment of Mathematics, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain.
C Gutiérrez
R Martínez

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Abstract

A two-dimensional bisexual branching process has recently been presented for the analysis of the generation-to-generation evolution of the number of carriers of a Y-linked gene. In this model, preference of females for males with a specific genetic characteristic is assumed to be determined by an allele of the gene. It has been shown that the behavior of this kind of Y-linked gene is strongly related to the reproduction law of each genotype. In practice, the corresponding offspring distributions are usually unknown, and it is necessary to develop their estimation theory in order to determine the natural selection of the gene. Here we deal with the estimation problem for the offspring distribution of each genotype of a Y-linked gene when the only observable data are each generation's total numbers of males of each genotype and of females. We set out the problem in a non parametric framework and obtain the maximum likelihood estimators of the offspring distributions using an expectation-maximization algorithm. From these estimators, we also derive the estimators for the reproduction mean of each genotype and forecast the distribution of the future population sizes. Finally, we check the accuracy of the algorithm by means of a simulation study.

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AlgorithmsGenes, Y-LinkedSelection, GeneticAnimalsComputer SimulationFemaleHumansMaleModels, GeneticProbabilityStochastic Processes

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PMID22924631
PMCPMC3440006

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