Inferring genetic interactions from comparative fitness data

  1. Kristina Crona
  2. Alex Gavryushkin
  3. Devin Greene
  4. Niko Beerenwinkel  Is a corresponding author
  1. American University, United States
  2. ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  3. SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland
10 figures, 3 tables and 1 additional file

Figures

All 24 rank orders of the biallelic two-locus system, where the 16 colored rank orders imply epistasis.

Red (top row) indicates positive epistasis and blue (middle row) negative epistasis.

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(a) A partial fitness order of genotypes.

The rank orders that extend this partial order are orders (9 , 10 , 12 , 13 , 14), and (16) in Figure 1. All of them imply negative epistasis (ε2<0). (b) A partial order of genotypes with all its …

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For a biallelic two-locus system where the genotype 00 has the lowest fitness, there are four fitness graphs.

The graph (a) is compatible with additive fitness, whereas the remaining graphs imply negative epistasis.

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The fitness graph (a) implies three way epistasis, the graph (b) implies epistasis, but not higher order epistasis, and (c) does not imply epistasis, since all arrows point up.
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Interactions detected from fitness summary statistics and from rank orders.

The horizontal axis is labeled by the four interaction coordinates u110, , u111 and twenty circuits a, , t. The boxplots show the distributions of the various interactions induced by the empirical …

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The TEM-family of β-lactamase contributes to antibiotic resistance problems in hospitals.

The fitness graph shows a four-locus system consisting of the wild type, TEM-1, the quadruple mutant, TEM-50, and all intermediate mutants, including six clinically found mutants in the TEM family. …

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The fitness graph shows a four-locus system for the filamentous fungus Aspergillus Niger.

The system consists of all combinations of the four individually deleteriouis mutations fwnA1, leuA1, oliC2 and crnB12. The landscape has in total four peaks, labeled 0000,1100,0011 and 1001.

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The fitness graph is compatible with the two rank orders (5) and (6).
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An example of an isomorphism.

Here, the allele labels ‘0’ and ‘1’ in the first locus have been interchanged, as well as the second and third loci.

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All 54 fitness graph types.

Those depicted in red imply three-way epistasis.

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Tables

Table 1
Numbers and fractions of rank orders that imply n-way epistasis. 
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LociRank ordersImply epistasisFraction
224162/3
340,32016,1282/5
420,922,789,890,0004,649,508,864,0002/9
Table 2
Comparison of the rank order method with t-test.

The first column lists the four interaction coordinates and twenty circuits. The second column shows p-values returned by Student’s t-test based on fitness measurements. The third column shows which …

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Interactionp-valueResultFrom rank order
u0111.13e-31+0
u1012.67e-12-0
u1101.20e-24-0
u1111.50e-29++
a7.10e-16-+
b5.23e-32--
c7.62e-04++
d8.36e-68--
e1.39e-38++
f2.59e-0100
g3.10e-59-0
h2.22e-02-+
i7.97e-05+0
j2.20e-32--
k1.96e-05+0
l7.50e-51--
m4.88e-07-0
n9.87e-37+0
o8.83e-03+0
p7.18e-19++
q1.94e-0100
r5.02e-50++
s7.10e-27-0
t8.49e-61--
Table 3
Data from (Franke et al., 2011) on a 5-locus system determined by the mutations fwnA1, argH12, pyrA5, leuA1, and pheA1.

We consider 5-way epistasis for the system. The first column lists the ranking of the genotypes, where ”?” means missing measurement. The eighth column indicates whether the genotype is odd or even. …

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Rankfwnargpyrleuphe#mutationso/
e
#o cumul.#e cumul.neg. vs
pos.
1000000e01+
2100012e02+
3010113o12+
4010012e13+
5110114e14+
6 (or 7)110002e15+
7 (or 6)100102e16+
8000011o26+
9111003o36+
10010001o46+
11011013o56+
12101002e57+
13000101o67+
14100001o77+
15110013o87-
16011002e88+
17001113o98-
18 (or 19)111014e99+
19 (or 18)100113o109-
20000112e1010+
21010102e1011+
22001012e1012+
23001001o1112+
24011114e1113+
25011103o1213+
26001102e1214+
27101013o1314+
28111104e1315+
29111115o1415+
30101103o1515+
?110103o???
?101114e???

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