Statistical properties of the branch-site test of positive selection

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1217-1228

  Yang, Ziheng ^a,b   Dos Reis, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

branch site test; codon model; likelihood ratio test; positive selection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRANCH SITE TEST; CODON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENE SEQUENCE; NULL HYPOTHESIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; CODON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 79952136825     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq303     Document Type: Article

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