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Article: Toward a Neutral Evolutionary Model of Gene Expression
- Article from:
- Genetics
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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CopyrightCopyright Genetics Society of America Jun 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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ABSTRACT
We introduce a stochastic model that describes neutral changes of gene expression over evolutionary time as a compound Poisson process where evolutionary events cause changes of expression level according to a given probability distribution. The model produces simple estimators for model parameters and allows discrimination between symmetric and asymmetric distributions of evolutionary expression changes along an evolutionary lineage. Furthermore, we introduce two measures, the skewness of expression difference distributions and relative difference of evolutionary branch lengths, which are used to quantify deviation from clock-like behavior of gene expression distances. Model-based ...