Simulation study of the reliability and robustness of the statistical methods for detecting positive selection at single amino acid sites

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1865-1869

  Suzuki, Yoshiyuki ^a   Nei, Masatoshi ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binomial probability; Likelihood; Parsimony; Positive selection; Posterior probability

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE CONSTRUCTION METHOD; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC SELECTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELECTION (GENETICS); STATISTICS;

EID: 0036855372     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004010     Document Type: Article

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