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ArticleGenome research2023

Robust analysis of prokaryotic pangenome gene gain and loss rates with Panstripe.

Gerry Tonkin-Hill, Rebecca A Gladstone, Anna K Pöntinen, Sergio Arredondo-Alonso, Stephen D Bentley, Jukka Corander

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Article in Genome research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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6 authors.

Gerry Tonkin-HillDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Oslo, 0372 Blindern, Norway.ORCID 0000-0003-4397-2224
Rebecca A GladstoneDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Oslo, 0372 Blindern, Norway.
Anna K PöntinenDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Oslo, 0372 Blindern, Norway.
Sergio Arredondo-AlonsoDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Oslo, 0372 Blindern, Norway.
Stephen D BentleyParasites and Microbes, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge CB10 1RQ, United Kingdom.
Jukka CoranderDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Oslo, 0372 Blindern, Norway.

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Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 204016/Z/16/ZWellcome Trust 206194
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) plays a critical role in the evolution and diversification of many microbial species. The resulting dynamics of gene gain and loss can have important implications for the development of antibiotic resistance and the design of vaccine and drug interventions. Methods for the analysis of gene presence/absence patterns typically do not account for errors introduced in the automated annotation and clustering of gene sequences. In particular, methods adapted from ecological studies, including the pangenome gene accumulation curve, can be misleading as they may reflect the underlying diversity in the temporal sampling of genomes rather than a difference in the dynamics of HGT. Here, we introduce Panstripe, a method based on generalized linear regression that is robust to population structure, sampling bias, and errors in the predicted presence/absence of genes. We show using simulations that Panstripe can effectively identify differences in the rate and number of genes involved in HGT events, and illustrate its capability by analyzing several diverse bacterial genome data sets representing major human pathogens.

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Evolution, MolecularProkaryotic CellsGene Transfer, HorizontalGenome, BacterialHumansPhylogeny

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PMCPMC9977150

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