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Estimating the genome-wide contribution of selection to temporal allele frequency change

View ORCID ProfileVince Buffalo, View ORCID ProfileGraham Coop
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/798595
Vince Buffalo
Population Biology Graduate GroupCenter for Population Biology, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616
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Graham Coop
Center for Population Biology, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616
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Abstract

Rapid phenotypic adaptation is often observed in natural populations and selection experiments. However, detecting the genome-wide impact of this selection is difficult, since adaptation often proceeds from standing variation and selection on highly polygenic traits, both of which may leave faint genomic signals indistinguishable from a noisy background of genetic drift. One promising signal comes from the genome-wide covariance between allele frequency changes observable from temporal genomic data, e.g. evolve-and-resequence studies. These temporal covariances reflect how the change in neutral allele frequency at one timepoint is predictive of the changes at later timepoints when there is heritable fitness variation in the population, as neutral alleles can remain associated with selected alleles over time. Since genetic drift does not lead to temporal covariance, we can use these covariances to estimate what fraction of the variation in allele frequency change through time is driven by linked selection. Here, we reanalyze two Drosophila simulans evolve-and-resequence studies, and one artificial selection experiment in mice, to quantify the effects of linked selection over short timescales using covariance among time-points and across replicates. We estimate that at least 17% to 37% of allele frequency change is driven by selection in these experiments. Against this background of positive genome-wide temporal covariances we also identify signals of negative temporal covariance corresponding to reversals in the direction of selection for a reasonable proportion of loci over the time course of a selection experiment. Overall, we find that in the three studies we analyzed, linked selection has a large impact on short-term allele frequency dynamics that is readily distinguishable from genetic drift.

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Estimating the genome-wide contribution of selection to temporal allele frequency change
Vince Buffalo, Graham Coop
bioRxiv 798595; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/798595
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Vince Buffalo, Graham Coop
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