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Modeling the site-specific variation of selection patterns along lineages.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 31 Aug 2004
Guindon Stéphane, Rodrigo Allen G, Dyer Kelly A, Huelsenbeck John P
Abstract excerpt
The unambiguous footprint of positive Darwinian selection in protein-coding DNA sequences is revealed by an excess of nonsynonymous substitutions over synonymous substitutions compared with the neutral expectation. Methods for analyzing the patterns of nonsynonymous and synonymous substitutions usually rely on stochastic models in which the selection regime may vary across the sequence but remains constant across...
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