An Integrated-Likelihood Method for Estimating Genetic Differentiation Between Populations
- 1 August 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Genetics
- Vol. 173 (4), 2073-2082
- https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.106.055350
Abstract
The aim of this article is to develop an integrated-likelihood (IL) approach to estimate the genetic differentiation between populations. The conventional maximum-likelihood (ML) and pseudolikelihood (PL) methods that use sample counts of alleles may cause severe underestimations of FST, which means overestimations of θ = 4Nm, when the number of sampling localities is small. To reduce such bias in the estimation of genetic differentiation, we propose an IL method in which the mean allele frequencies over populations are regarded as nuisance parameters and are eliminated by integration. To maximize the IL function, we have developed two algorithms, a Monte Carlo EM algorithm and a Laplace approximation. Our simulation studies show that the method proposed here outperforms the conventional ML and PL methods in terms of unbiasedness and precision. The IL method was applied to real data for Pacific herring and African elephants.Keywords
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