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STATISTICAL APPLICATIONS IN GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
BERKELEY ELECTRONIC PRESS
DOI: 10.2202/1544-6115.1603
Keywords
genotype-phenotype map; conjunctive Bayesian networks; HIV drug resistance; isotonic regression
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- LMUexcellent guest professorship
- Swiss National Science Foundation [CR32I2_127017]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [CR32I2_127017] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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Evolutionary escape of pathogens from the selective pressure of immune responses and from medical interventions is driven by the accumulation of mutations. We introduce a statistical model for jointly estimating the dynamics and dependencies among genetic alterations and the associated phenotypic changes. The model integrates conjunctive Bayesian networks, which define a partial order on the occurrences of genetic events, with isotonic regression. The resulting genotype-phenotype map is non-decreasing in the lattice of genotypes. It describes evolutionary escape as a directed process following a phenotypic gradient, such as a monotonic fitness landscape. We present efficient algorithms for parameter estimation and model selection. The model is validated using simulated data and applied to HIV drug resistance data. We find that the effect of many resistance mutations is non-linear and depends on the genetic background in which they occur.
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