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ArticleGenome biology and evolution2018

Phylogenetic Clustering of Genes Reveals Shared Evolutionary Trajectories and Putative Gene Functions.

Chaoyue Liu, Benjamin Wright, Emma Allen-Vercoe, Hong Gu, Robert Beiko

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Article in Genome biology and evolution, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Chaoyue LiuFaculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Benjamin WrightFaculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Emma Allen-VercoeDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Hong GuDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Robert BeikoFaculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Dalhousie University · CAUniversity of Guelph · CA

Funding

Defining the Human MicrobiomeU54HG004969 · NHGRI · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI BIRREN, BRUCE W. · 2009 to 2012
$10.3M
NHGRI NIH HHS U54 HG004969
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Homologous genes in prokaryotes can be described using phylogenetic profiles which summarize their patterns of presence or absence across a set of genomes. Phylogenetic profiles have been used for nearly twenty years to cluster genes based on measures such as the Euclidean distance between profile vectors. However, most approaches do not take into account the phylogenetic relationships amongst the profiled genomes, and overrepresentation of certain taxonomic groups (i.e., pathogenic species with many sequenced representatives) can skew the interpretation of profiles. We propose a new approach that uses a coevolutionary method defined by Pagel to account for the phylogenetic relationships amongst target organisms, and a hierarchical-clustering approach to define sets of genes with common distributions across the organisms. The clusters we obtain using our method show greater evidence of phylogenetic and functional clustering than a recently published approach based on hidden Markov models. Our clustering method identifies sets of amino-acid biosynthesis genes that constitute cohesive pathways, and motility/chemotaxis genes with common histories of descent and lateral gene transfer.

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Evolution, MolecularGenome, BacterialPhylogenyBacterial ProteinsBiological CoevolutionCluster AnalysisEubacterialesGene Transfer, HorizontalMarkov ChainsMultigene FamilyBacterial Proteins

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PMID30137329
PMCPMC6130602
OpenAlexW2888152011

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