Biology Forum › Evolution › How to calculate Ka/Ks ratios
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- March 23, 2008 at 9:40 am #9332timpanisterParticipant
Hi,
Can Ka/Ks ratio be calculated for within species ie polymorphism data?
- March 25, 2008 at 6:31 pm #83036CatParticipant
For a few cases maybe, but probably not for most. Ka is the number of non-synonymous base changes and Ks is the number of synonymous base changes in the same gene. In most cases of within species gene polymorphism no synonymous base changes present (say Ka=1 and Ks= 0, then ratio is 1/0, which cannot be).
- October 23, 2008 at 5:54 pm #86694liquidkodakParticipant
I don’t know if you are still checking this board but you can use Ka/Ks for intraspecies comparisons. Here is the paper that developed the idea. Hughes AL, Nei M. 1988. Pattern of nucleotide substitution at major histocompatibility complex class I loci reveals overdominant selection. Nature 335:167-170.
- October 31, 2008 at 9:02 pm #86862zz63Participant
The software, KaKs_Calculator, can do this. It contains several existing methods and can be found at http://www.yale.edu/townsend/software.html
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