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A function to estimate three measures of genetic differentiation using geno files, vcf files, or vcfR objects. Data is assumed to be bi-allelic.

Usage

Differentiation(
  data,
  pops,
  statistic = "all",
  missing_value = NA,
  write = FALSE,
  prefix = NULL,
  population_col = NULL,
  individual_col = NULL
)

Arguments

data

Character. String indicating the name of the vcf file, geno file or vcfR object to be used in the analysis.

pops

Character. String indicating the name of the population assignment file or dataframe containing the population assignment information for each individual in the data. This file must be in the same order as the vcf file and include columns specifying the individual and the population that individual belongs to. The first column should contain individual names and the second column should indicate the population assignment of each individual. Alternatively, you can indicate the column containing the individual and population information using the individual_col and population_col arguments.

statistic

Character. String or vector indicating the statistic to calculate. Options are any of: all; all of the statistics; Fst, Weir and Cockerham (1984) Fst; NeisD, Nei's D statistic; JostsD, Jost's D.

missing_value

Character. String indicating missing data in the input data. It is assumed to be NA, but that may not be true (is likely not) in the case of geno files.

write

Boolean. Whether or not to write the output to files in the current working directory. There will be one or two files for each statistic. Files will be named based on their statistic such as Fst_perpop.csv.

prefix

Character. Optional argument. String that will be appended to file output. Please provide a prefix if write is set to TRUE.

population_col

Numeric. Optional argument (a number) indicating the column that contains the population assignment information.

individual_col

Numeric. Optional argument (a number) indicating the column that contains the individuals (i.e., sample name) in the data.

Value

A list containing the estimated heterozygosity statistics. The per pop values are calculated by taking the average of the per locus estimates.

References

Fst:

Pembleton, L. W., Cogan, N. O., & Forster, J. W. (2013). StAMPP: An R package for calculation of genetic differentiation and structure of mixed‐ploidy level populations. Molecular ecology resources, 13(5), 946-952.doi:10.1111/1755-0998.12129

Weir, B. S., & Cockerham, C. C. (1984). Estimating F-statistics for the analysis of population structure. evolution, 1358-1370.

Nei's D:

Nei, M. (1972). Genetic distance between populations. The American Naturalist, 106(949), 283-292.doi:10.1086/282771

doi:10.1111/1755-0998.12129 Pembleton, L. W., Cogan, N. O., & Forster, J. W. (2013). StAMPP: An R package for calculation of genetic differentiation and structure of mixed‐ploidy level populations. Molecular ecology resources, 13(5), 946-952.

Jost's D:

Jost L (2008). GST and its relatives do not measure differentiation. Molecular Ecology, 17, 4015–4026.doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03887.x

Author

Keaka Farleigh

Examples

# \donttest{
data("HornedLizard_Pop")
data("HornedLizard_VCF")
Test <- Differentiation(data = HornedLizard_VCF, pops = HornedLizard_Pop, write = FALSE)# }
#> [1] "vcfR object detected, proceeding to formatting."
#> Formatting has finished, moving onto calculations