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Long-term natural selection affects patterns of neutral divergence on the X chromosome more than the autosomes

Pooja Narang, Melissa A. Wilson Sayres
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/023234
Pooja Narang
aSchool of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 85281 USA
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Melissa A. Wilson Sayres
aSchool of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 85281 USA
bCenter for Evolution and Medicine, The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 85281 USA
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Natural selection reduces neutral population genetic diversity near coding regions of the genome because recombination has not had time to unlink selected alleles from nearby neutral regions. For ten sub-species of great apes, including human, we show that long-term selection affects estimates of divergence on the X differently from the autosomes. Divergence increases with increasing distance from genes on both the X chromosome and autosomes, but increases faster on the X chromosome than autosomes, resulting in increasing ratios of X/A divergence in putatively neutral regions. Similarly, divergence is reduced more on the X chromosome in neutral regions near conserved regulatory elements than on the autosomes. Consequently estimates of male mutation bias, which rely on comparing neutral divergence between the X and autosomes, are twice as high in neutral regions near genes versus far from genes. Our results suggest filters for putatively neutral genomic regions differ between the X and autosomes.

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Pooja Narang, Melissa A. Wilson Sayres
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