0.20) on the euchromatic nuclear genome in the MA lines. We multiplexed and sequenced 5 libraries per lane on the HiSeq 2000 (Illumina). While we could not formally exclude the possibility, the mutational variance we observed in the MA lines appears to be too large (by a few orders of magnitude) to be solely explained by elevated mutation rates under stressful conditions. n. 1. As suggested by reviewer 3, the expectations need to be more clearly set up, and the methods described in greater detail. A specific problem is with a key interpretation of the results: in paragraph seven of the Discussion. 2009 and Schrider et al. And of course it is not surprising that the quantitative traits are under stabilizing selection. The histograms show the observed distribution and the estimated normal distributions and their mixture. Spontaneous Mutation. The overall spontaneous mutation rate for all types of mutations combined was 6.25 × 10–9 on autosomes and 6.96 × 10–9 on the X chromosome (Figure 7c), similar to recent mutation rate estimates from MA studies using high throughput sequencing (Keightley et al., 2009; Schrider et al., 2013). It is confusing to use the term "stabilising selection" here. Keywords: Mutation, Spontaneous and induced mutation, mechanisms of mutation and their results, detection methods Introduction Today bacteria are an important tool in the study of genetics and biotechnology, but for 40 years after the rediscovery of Mendel's work and the rebirth of genetics, they were considered too simple to have genes, undergo mutation, or reproduce sexually. There is a distribution of effects and by using the median as the numerical example, we are making the point that at least 50% of the genes are experiencing selection that’s weaker than selection on fitness. Five sleep traits (total sleep duration during the night and day, numbers of sleep bouts during the night and day, and total waking activity) (Harbison et al., 2009) were measured on 3–5 day old flies, for 16 virgin males and 16 virgin females per line (N=800). We distinguish real stabilizing selection and apparent stabilizing selection with more qualifying terms whenever possible. Finally, alleles (mapping quality ≥13, base quality ≥13) were piled up using freebayes(Garrison and Marth, 2012). In natural populations of finite size, however, mutations and the genetic variation they introduce are constantly removed by genetic drift and by purifying and stabilizing natural selection. Regardless of the nature of the stabilizing selection, the outcome is that the effects (whether they are direct or indirect) they have on the traits are on average smaller for standing variation than spontaneous mutations, which we think is an important result. Spotting: White areas in the coat. However, we choose not to include this in the manuscript to avoid false expectation. Expected and observed distributions of mutant allele frequency on autosomes (a) and the X chromosome (b). Total RNA was quantified using a NanoDrop 8000 spectrophotometer (Thermo Scientific, Carlsbad, CA). induced mutation: Etymology: L, inducere, to lead in, mutare, to change a mutation that is produced by treatment with a physical or chemical agent that affects the deoxyribonucleic acid molecules of … Regarding the questions the reviewer has: 1) The variance is not on absolute values; 2) the expression level is on a log scale, the variance is the variance of the expression level; 3) we scale Vm by Ve to obtain mutational heritability hm2. The implicit assumption here is that stabilising selection acts on the observed traits, which is wildly implausible. Waking activity was calculated as the number of times the fly crossed the infrared beam divided by the total time awake. On the one hand, lethal and highly deleterious mutations would not accumulate in these lines. In (d), the Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r) is calculated with (orange line) or without (green line) MA19 (orange circle). The issue of why genetic variation for quantitative traits segregates at appreciable levels in natural populations despite the tendency of genetic drift and directional and stabilizing selection to erode it remains an unresolved puzzle. A key challenge in evolutionary biology is to understand how genetic variation – differences in the DNA of individuals in a population – is generated and maintained to create the enormous diversity that exists in nature. I don't think this necessarily follows. However, I am still not satisfied on a couple of points: The revisions have been mostly to better explain the experimental design. I strongly recommend publication, after a relatively small amount of revision. This is crucial to how we interpret these variances. Genetics a. Publicly available at EBI ArrayExpress (accession no: E-MTAB-4117). Thank you for resubmitting your work entitled "Spontaneous Mutation and the Origin and Maintenance of Quantitative Genetic Variation" for further consideration at eLife. The cDNA was converted to double-stranded DNA and used as a template for in vitro transcription to synthesize biotin-labeled aRNA. If there is a distribution of effects on traits, then the ratio Vm/Vg will be smaller for traits that are less closely connected with fitness. On average, mutations fix at a probability equal to their initial frequencies after 4Ne generations. The results, whatever they were, are bound to be of general interest and by their analyses and interpretation they add a lot more. We observed that genes that are more plastic to macro-environmental perturbations accumulated genetic variation at a faster rate (Figure 9), suggesting a shared control of gene expression variation by mutations and environmental perturbations (Landry et al., 2007). Spontaneous mutations are another type of heritable changes in the structure of DNA, occurring due to natural factors. This allowed us to largely separate the effects of genetic drift from the combined effects of both selection and drift, a key advantage that is not possible from observations only on natural populations. Nonetheless, as line or treatment was randomized within each experiment, any such batch effect on variance would be much more likely to affect the within-line variance than the among-line variances that were used for comparison. The observed magnitude of segregating variation is much less than predicted under this model given our estimates of population size in nature and mutational variation. At generation 60, we sequenced the MA lines to estimate mutation rate (μ) and ∑i=1MVar(mi), and obtained microarray gene expression and organismal phenotypic data to estimate mutational variance (Vm). We agree with the reviewer. The estimates here do not include the fraction of strongly deleterious mutations. Transversion mutations are usually spontaneous, but these can be induced by radiation or alkylating agents. Alignments were locally realigned around known indels in the DGRP and around target regions identified across all samples using GATK (DePristo et al., 2011). We divided DGRP_360 into 25 replicate sublines, each maintained at a census population size of 10 virgin females and 10 males per generation. To accumulate spontaneous mutations, we split one sequenced inbred line from the Drosophila melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel (DGRP) (Mackay et al., 2012) into 25 MA lines, and maintained them in small populations (10 females and 10 males) for many generations (Figure 1b). The sizes of the PCR-enriched libraries were verified by Bioanalyzer using the high sensitivity DNA chip (Agilent, Santa Clara, CA). The mean and variance of each component distribution is estimated using the mixtools package in R. A gene is called expressed if its posterior probability of belonging to the normal distribution with the larger mean is higher than 2/3. However, it is not as simple as it appears and goes beyond the scope of this study. The point that the strength of selection implicated by the empirical estimate of Vm/Vg is too small by an order of magnitude to be consistent with mutation-apparent (pleiotropic) stabilizing selection has been made before (e.g. All types of point mutations can occur spontaneously, during S, G1 and G2 phases of the cell cycle, or by the movement of transposons. As the reviewer points out, this study contains the most comprehensive and accurate estimates of several important genetic parameters and a useful large and open data set, which are important for further advances in this field. It is not obvious how to compare variance in gene expression, but the definition of the trait is not even stated in the main text. To validate mutations detected by Illumina’s sequence-by-synthesis chemistry, we sequenced a randomly selected set of 51 mutations in five MA lines at generation 130 by capillary sequencing (Sanger). Spontaneous mutations occur unpredictably, and among the possible factors responsible for them are tautomeric changes occurring in the DNA bases which alter their pairing characteristics, ionizing radiation from various natural sources, naturally occurring chemical mutagens, and errors in the action of the DNA-polymerizing and correcting enzymes. Second paragraph of the same section: What are the units of measurement here? The normalized probe intensities were log 2 transformed and estimates of gene expression were obtained using median polish, which adjusted probe effect and removed potential outliers. Barring these earlier studies being flawed in some way, this paper doesn't really cover new ground. We now note this limitation and its implications in the Discussion. Definition of Spontaneous Mutation. 4) Charlesworth’s excellent review was specifically for effects of mutations on fitness and its components, not the quantitative traits examined in this manuscript. DNA libraries were prepared from the fragmented DNA using the Illumina TruSeq DNA Sample Preparation Kit (Illumina, San Diego, CA) by following the manufacturer’s procedure. (The distinction here depends of course on what "traits" one defines). Androgen insensitivity syndrome Considered a genetic disorder, 70% of the cases have a familial/genetic link, while 30% appear to be by spontaneous mutation . spontaneous mutation a MUTATION occurring in the absence of a known mutagen. What is a Spontaneous Mutation. Simple theoretical models cannot explain the relatively high spontaneous mutation rate and low genetic variation seen in the quantitative traits of natural populations. Our estimates of mutation rates could be biased either upwards or downwards, depending on the initial fitness of the inbred line. Arrays for DGRP_514, MA-21 and MA-23 were not considered because we lacked sequence information for these lines. The PDF file is then generated automatically by concatenating figures to the end of the text. All other comparisons are directly on and can only be on Vmor Vgbecause the two experiments have different Ve. Barton 1990) and is generally accepted, so we do not understand the reviewer’s objection to this interpretation. one or two copies of the mutated allele produces the phenotype) and semidominant (i.e. With rare alleles, and assuming mutation/selection balance, the selection estimated from Vm/Vg equals the harmonic mean s, weighted by the squared affect on traits. The spontaneous mutation that created the curly-coated Cornish Rex occured twice: … Rarity: Common. Mutagens can be physical, such as radiation from UV rays, X-rays or extreme heat, or chemical (molecules that misplace base pairs or disrupt the helical shape of DNA). A mutation that arises naturally and not as a result of exposure to mutagens. The effect of expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) varies across cell types; however, the complexity of mammalian tissues makes studying cell-type eQTLs highly challenging. We respectively disagree with some of these points. The flies were homogenized with 2 spherical ceramic beads (MP Biomedical) using the TissueLyser (Qiagen) and lysed for 1 hr (56°C) with Cell Lysis Buffer supplemented with RNAse A (1.5 mg) and Proteinase K (12 mg). Spontaneous mutations are the naturally occurring mutations which appear in all cells. Mutation definition. Spotting factor: Gene causing white spotting in the cat¹s coat. We sequenced DNA in G130 to allow sufficient time for mutations to fix, because Sanger sequencing cannot readily distinguish low frequency polymorphisms from background noise and is subject to bias in PCR amplification of alleles. Thus the authors could estimate spontaneous mutation rates for variables ranging from molecular sequence to phenotypes of quantitative traits. Therefore, unless a mutation is highly deleterious or lethal, its fate is determined primarily by genetic drift. We calculated the multinomial likelihood L=(Mm1, m2, …, m16)∏i=116Pimi of the observed mutant frequency distribution, where i indexed one of the 16 equally sized allele frequency bins between 0.2 and 1 ((0.2, 0.25], (0.25, 0.30), …, (0.95, 1]). This means that the mutation can then be passed to future generations. I accept that starting from a single line was a reasonable choice, given the effort involved, and this is now explained better. This requires an enormous number of flies to be sequenced to enable a meaningful comparison. We mean genome-wide gene expression profiles. We entirely agree with the reviewer that mutation rate and mutational variance can be genetically variable and thus specific to each line. Because of the scale of experiment and the large number of MA lines needed to accurately estimate mutational variance, we chose an experimental design that focused on a single inbred strain to derive a relatively large number of MA lines. Sequence composition (GC content, a) and complexity (b) for local sequences (20 bp up and downstream of mutations) are plotted as box plots and compared between different types of mutations. Our estimates of μ, Vm and Vg do not alter the conclusion that simple mutation – stabilizing selection models for either direct or apparent stabilizing selection cannot maintain the observed amounts of segregating genetic variation with the observed mutational input and strong selection: the mutational variance is too low and/or the standing genetic variance is too high (Turelli, 1985; Hill and Keightley, 1988; Barton and Turelli, 1989; Zhang et al., 2002; Turelli and Barton, 2004). So, the differences in Vm/Vg between viability and gene expression are surely to be expected? Nevertheless, earlier studies using multiple MA lines derived from different ancestors did not suggest a large genetic variation in mutation rate (Keightley et al., 2009). In the interests of transparency, eLife includes the editorial decision letter and accompanying author responses. In keeping with the inference that spontaneous mutations accumulated under minimal natural selection, the numbers of mutations per gene was primarily a function of gene length (Figure 6); and there was no gene ontology (GO) category enrichment for genes harboring new mutations (Supplementary file 1C). The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication. A better design would, in some respects, have been to have taken a subset of MA lines from several (a sample of) DGRP lines to assess and allow for genetic variation in mutation rates among the DGRP lines. Vs=20Ve), high heritabilities (e.g. We thank this reviewer for the comments on the interpretation and presentation of data. Proteins were removed from the clear lysates with protein precipitation solution followed by centrifugation. Origin of Spontaneous Mutations: Mutation involves changes in DNA. Even after reading the Methods, I could not work this out. P values were computed by Wilcoxon’s rank sum tests comparing data in each category to the 'Random genomic' category. The number of mutations per MA line ranged from 35 to 193, with a mean of 63 (Supplementary file 1B). For each gene, we first transformed the data to be normally distributed by taking the quantiles of a normal distribution with the mean equal to the median expression and the variance equal to the square of the median absolute deviation (by a scaling factor of 1.4824 to account for the expected difference of median absolute deviation and variance, which has no effect on the statistical inference). We did a preliminary normalization and stringently removed arrays that appeared to be contaminated by flies of the opposite sex or contained more than 1% of genes whose expression was more than five standard deviations higher or lower than the mean expression of the same genes across all arrays. We partitioned the phenotypic variation observed among the collective sample of individuals from the MA lines into the between-line genetic variation due to mutations (VMA) and the within-line variation due to environmental or technical noise (Ve). Rather, Vm/Vg gives an estimate of the net selection on each allele. All Sets: Card Number: 74. Total RNA was extracted using the miRNeasy 96 kit (Qiagen) with on-column DNAse I digestion and following the spin technology protocol as outlined in the manufacturer’s manual. First appeared in 1610, based on the French word “baguette” for the long loaf of bread. hm2 for organismal traits ranged between 0.30 x 10–3 and 2.88 x 10–3, of the same order of magnitude as observed in earlier studies (Houle et al., 1996). Trying to be ordinary, plain-spoken, and spontaneous made it worse. This is a revision of a major paper I refereed earlier. This is a known limitation of MA lines, which must be free of lethal and highly deleterious mutations to keep them alive. Your revised article has been favorably evaluated by Diethard Tautz (Senior editor), a Reviewing editor, and three reviewers. In this study, we combined the classical mutation accumulation design, which subjects inbred lines of Drosophila melanogaster to genetic bottlenecks for many generations, with modern high throughput technologies. We used these estimates of effective population size to estimate the spontaneous mutation rate on the X chromosome and autosomes, given the number of observed mutations in each line, taking into account variable sequence coverage in each line. Pi is the probability of observing a mutant allele in the ith bin given the expected mutant frequency distribution based on simulation, and m1,m2, ⋯, m16  are the number of mutations in each bin and summed to M. We inferred effective population size for autosomes and X chromosomes separately. The variances and distributions of traits among these lines were compared with those among the DGRP lines and differences used to infer the degree of selection operating in the new lines. By comparing the expectation under neutrality to the observed level of genetic variation in a natural population, one can infer the form and consequences of natural selection on genetic variation (Figure 1). However, the spontaneous mutation typically occurs at such an early stage of development that it is present in all the cells, including sperm and egg cells. However, this is primarily due to technical limitations because mutation rate is sensitive to environmental and physiological factors that cannot be easily controlled and it is prohibitive to collect genetic data on mutation rates in natural populations. However, the extent of depletion of exonic spontaneous mutations was much weaker – the spectrum of spontaneous mutations detected in the MA lines more closely reflected the proportion of exonic, intronic and intergenic bases in the genome (Figure 5a). Moreover, because we need to estimate mutational variance accurately for a large number of traits, we are more concerned with their accuracy than mutation rate per se. Although spontaneous mutations occurred at a relatively low rate of 6.60 × 10–9 averaged over autosomes and the X chromosome, they replenished genetic variation at a significant rate for gene expression (sex averaged rate = 0.65 × 10–3Ve per generation) and organismal traits (sex averaged rate = 1.36 × 10–3Ve per generation). The main consideration at the time of designing the experiment was to balance cost and accuracy. For simplicity, we assumed additivity so that a one dimensional range can be provided. Consistent with this notion, we found stronger selection on genes that would cause trans pleiotropic effects such as transcription factors (Supplementary file 1G). Third, we partitioned the genome with respect to GO categories and assessed the significance of the difference of Vm/Vg for genes associated with each GO category and those not in the category. All other comments have also been carefully considered. Spontaneous Mutation. Definition of mutation: ... Spontaneous mutations are miraculous. We agree. Only lines whose median filtered coverage was above 15 were considered for mutation detection. The reviewers also had a number of other suggestions to be taken into account; in particular, it would be helpful to discuss the possibility that MA lines have higher mutation rates than do natural populations. For each 2Ne value ranging from 10 to 40, we simulated 1,000,000 MA lines where one mutation occurred independently per line per generation. … Regarding the test of the spectrum of mutations, we do not expect exact agreement between this work and earlier studies because different bioinformatic procedures can have significant effects on the inference of the mutation spectrum. 12 μg of purified biotin-labeled aRNA were fragmented and hybridized to GeneChip Drosophila Genome 2.0 arrays (Affymetrix). These values were near or among the upper quartile of that for gene expression traits with the exception of abdominal bristle number in males (Supplementary file 1D). Read the. An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality. The analysis is fairly sophisticated (though not well explained), and the estimates are remarkably close to those from previous studies, and estimated by less direct methods. The sequences contained many more “high-impact” mutations (which directly affect how proteins in the fly’s cells work) than seen in sequences taken from a natural fly population. At equilibrium, the among-line variance between a set of inbred lines such as the DGRP (Vg) is approximately 4NVm, where N is the effective population size (Lynch and Hill, 1986) of the wild population from which the DGRP was derived. Under simple pleiotropic models of apparent stabilizing selection (all mutations are equally deleterious and have a reduction of heterozygous fitness of s, and the strength of selection is strong (~10–2) against new mutations) the equilibrium genetic variance is Vg=Vm/s and s=Vm/Vg. These limitations have now been acknowledged both in the Introduction and in Discussion. The whole idea seems to me a very nice one, and the scale of this experiment is enormous. To avoid confusion, we have revised the relevant text. A total of 23 out of the 368 arrays were removed before a final normalization was performed on the remaining 345 arrays. Here, we will focus on those errors that might occur during the DNA r eplication process or result from harmful agents in the environment. This implies either that non-genetic factors affect mutagenesis and/or that some spontaneous mutations themselves affect mutation rate; the latter is less plausible because such mutations must occur early in many lines to have a pronounced effect. Murder: Differences In Intent And Degree. A reversible transversion is possible in the case of … The between-line variance for MA lines VMA under a neutral and polygenic model is approximately, VMA=kVm, where k=2[ t−(2Ne−5)(1−e−t2Ne) ], t=60 (for gene expression traits) or 61 (for organismal traits) is the number of generations since the lines were established, Ne is the effective population size (2Ne=21) by taking the average of autosomes and X chromosomes) and Vm is the mutational variance (Lynch and Hill, 1986; Mackay et al., 1992). Each sample was diluted to 5 ng/ul and subjected to PCR using 95 primer pairs (Supplementary file 1B) with the following cycling parameters: 95°C for 2 min followed by 30 cycles of 95°C / 30 s + 56°C / 30 s + 72°C / 30 s followed by a final extension step at 72°C for 4 min. The estimates of Ne did not differ whether or not presumably non-neutral mutations (mutations that changed amino acids) were included, further suggesting that drift was the primary force driving mutation frequency dynamics in these MA lines. A lightly edited version of the letter sent to the authors after peer review is shown, indicating the most substantive concerns; minor comments are not usually included. Hence the estimates of mutation rate and of stabilising selection effects in comparing the MA and DGRP lines is, presumably, sensitive to choice of DGRP line. 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Induced mutations on the molecular level can be caused by Chemicals. Purifying or pleiotropic selection are too specific terms to be supported by our data. And the same MA lines used to measure mutations are used to measure phenotypes, and the same set of phenotypes is measured in the same way in the MA lines and DGRP lines. An estimate of the spontaneous mutation rate (at SNPs and small INDELs) is obtained. Genomic DNA was precipitated with 100% isopropanol and the DNA pellets washed with 70% ethanol. The libraries were quantified by qPCR using the KAPA SYBR FAST Master Mix Universal 2X qPCR Master Mix (Kapa Biosystems, Wilmington, MA). Spontaneous mutations are those that arise occasionally in the absence of a known cause, i.e., without exposure to external agents. The blue, red, and purple bars indicate genes with significant (FDR = 0.05) among-line variance in DGRP only, MA lines only, and both DGRP and MA lines respectively. With rare alleles, and assuming mutation/selection balance, the selection estimated from Vm/Vg equals the harmonic mean s, weighted by the squared affect on traits. The mutation rate estimated using a full-sib family agreed within the 95% confidence intervals with ours (Keightley, et al. We have now revised extensively the entire manuscript to improve clarity in what we mean by stabilizing selection. Point mutations may arise from spontaneous mutations that occur during DNA replication. estimated how much variation should occur in a natural population whose quantitative traits evolved without natural selection. These mutations usually tend to have higher frequencies than spontaneous mutations. Comprehension of the gene mutation mechanism requires DNA analysis and also the analysis of protein molecules. However, there were only eight mutations in total detected and confirmed in the Keightley (2014) study, which brings us to the second point. In some cases, these mutations can also occur during the repair of the damaged DNA sequence. Perhaps most importantly, the level of the observed stabilizing selection was too large to be explained by genetic variation between lines. First, genes expressed in both sexes are under slightly stronger selection than those expressed in only one sex, and the strength of selection has a modest but highly significant positive correlation between the two sexes (Figure 11). Spontaneous mutations Mutations that are a result of natural changes in DNA structure. Number of mutations detected in MA lines for each gene is plotted against the total number of bases covered for mutations. The authors respond adequately on this point. Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. It is confusing to use the term "stabilising selection" here. eLife publishes advances in quantitative genetics, including the genetic basis of complex traits, the maintenance of genetic variation, and their roles in evolution. Probe intensities were corrected for background hybridization using GCRMA (Wu et al., 2004) and quantile normalized within each sex. For organismal traits, Ve was assumed to be the within-line variance (sleep traits) or the sum of within-line and between-replicate variances (bristle numbers). While there was no appreciable difference in local sequence (20 bp up and downstream) GC content between mutations and randomly sampled sites, indels appeared to occur more often in low complexity regions, where homopolymers and short tandem repeats can often be found and are prone to replication slippage (Figure 4). I think the authors need to consider what I think is a serious flaw in the design of the experiment and thus underestimation of the sampling variance and overestimation of significance levels of some of the results. We detected a total of 1,456 mutations that were either fixed or segregating at high frequency (>0.20) on the euchromatic nuclear genome in the MA lines. We multiplexed and sequenced 5 libraries per lane on the HiSeq 2000 (Illumina). While we could not formally exclude the possibility, the mutational variance we observed in the MA lines appears to be too large (by a few orders of magnitude) to be solely explained by elevated mutation rates under stressful conditions. n. 1. As suggested by reviewer 3, the expectations need to be more clearly set up, and the methods described in greater detail. A specific problem is with a key interpretation of the results: in paragraph seven of the Discussion. 2009 and Schrider et al. And of course it is not surprising that the quantitative traits are under stabilizing selection. The histograms show the observed distribution and the estimated normal distributions and their mixture. Spontaneous Mutation. The overall spontaneous mutation rate for all types of mutations combined was 6.25 × 10–9 on autosomes and 6.96 × 10–9 on the X chromosome (Figure 7c), similar to recent mutation rate estimates from MA studies using high throughput sequencing (Keightley et al., 2009; Schrider et al., 2013). It is confusing to use the term "stabilising selection" here. Keywords: Mutation, Spontaneous and induced mutation, mechanisms of mutation and their results, detection methods Introduction Today bacteria are an important tool in the study of genetics and biotechnology, but for 40 years after the rediscovery of Mendel's work and the rebirth of genetics, they were considered too simple to have genes, undergo mutation, or reproduce sexually. There is a distribution of effects and by using the median as the numerical example, we are making the point that at least 50% of the genes are experiencing selection that’s weaker than selection on fitness. Five sleep traits (total sleep duration during the night and day, numbers of sleep bouts during the night and day, and total waking activity) (Harbison et al., 2009) were measured on 3–5 day old flies, for 16 virgin males and 16 virgin females per line (N=800). We distinguish real stabilizing selection and apparent stabilizing selection with more qualifying terms whenever possible. Finally, alleles (mapping quality ≥13, base quality ≥13) were piled up using freebayes(Garrison and Marth, 2012). In natural populations of finite size, however, mutations and the genetic variation they introduce are constantly removed by genetic drift and by purifying and stabilizing natural selection. Regardless of the nature of the stabilizing selection, the outcome is that the effects (whether they are direct or indirect) they have on the traits are on average smaller for standing variation than spontaneous mutations, which we think is an important result. Spotting: White areas in the coat. However, we choose not to include this in the manuscript to avoid false expectation. Expected and observed distributions of mutant allele frequency on autosomes (a) and the X chromosome (b). Total RNA was quantified using a NanoDrop 8000 spectrophotometer (Thermo Scientific, Carlsbad, CA). induced mutation: Etymology: L, inducere, to lead in, mutare, to change a mutation that is produced by treatment with a physical or chemical agent that affects the deoxyribonucleic acid molecules of … Regarding the questions the reviewer has: 1) The variance is not on absolute values; 2) the expression level is on a log scale, the variance is the variance of the expression level; 3) we scale Vm by Ve to obtain mutational heritability hm2. The implicit assumption here is that stabilising selection acts on the observed traits, which is wildly implausible. Waking activity was calculated as the number of times the fly crossed the infrared beam divided by the total time awake. On the one hand, lethal and highly deleterious mutations would not accumulate in these lines. In (d), the Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r) is calculated with (orange line) or without (green line) MA19 (orange circle). The issue of why genetic variation for quantitative traits segregates at appreciable levels in natural populations despite the tendency of genetic drift and directional and stabilizing selection to erode it remains an unresolved puzzle. A key challenge in evolutionary biology is to understand how genetic variation – differences in the DNA of individuals in a population – is generated and maintained to create the enormous diversity that exists in nature. I don't think this necessarily follows. However, I am still not satisfied on a couple of points: The revisions have been mostly to better explain the experimental design. I strongly recommend publication, after a relatively small amount of revision. This is crucial to how we interpret these variances. Genetics a. Publicly available at EBI ArrayExpress (accession no: E-MTAB-4117). Thank you for resubmitting your work entitled "Spontaneous Mutation and the Origin and Maintenance of Quantitative Genetic Variation" for further consideration at eLife. The cDNA was converted to double-stranded DNA and used as a template for in vitro transcription to synthesize biotin-labeled aRNA. If there is a distribution of effects on traits, then the ratio Vm/Vg will be smaller for traits that are less closely connected with fitness. On average, mutations fix at a probability equal to their initial frequencies after 4Ne generations. The results, whatever they were, are bound to be of general interest and by their analyses and interpretation they add a lot more. We observed that genes that are more plastic to macro-environmental perturbations accumulated genetic variation at a faster rate (Figure 9), suggesting a shared control of gene expression variation by mutations and environmental perturbations (Landry et al., 2007). Spontaneous mutations are another type of heritable changes in the structure of DNA, occurring due to natural factors. This allowed us to largely separate the effects of genetic drift from the combined effects of both selection and drift, a key advantage that is not possible from observations only on natural populations. Nonetheless, as line or treatment was randomized within each experiment, any such batch effect on variance would be much more likely to affect the within-line variance than the among-line variances that were used for comparison. The observed magnitude of segregating variation is much less than predicted under this model given our estimates of population size in nature and mutational variation. At generation 60, we sequenced the MA lines to estimate mutation rate (μ) and ∑i=1MVar(mi), and obtained microarray gene expression and organismal phenotypic data to estimate mutational variance (Vm). We agree with the reviewer. The estimates here do not include the fraction of strongly deleterious mutations. Transversion mutations are usually spontaneous, but these can be induced by radiation or alkylating agents. Alignments were locally realigned around known indels in the DGRP and around target regions identified across all samples using GATK (DePristo et al., 2011). We divided DGRP_360 into 25 replicate sublines, each maintained at a census population size of 10 virgin females and 10 males per generation. To accumulate spontaneous mutations, we split one sequenced inbred line from the Drosophila melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel (DGRP) (Mackay et al., 2012) into 25 MA lines, and maintained them in small populations (10 females and 10 males) for many generations (Figure 1b). The sizes of the PCR-enriched libraries were verified by Bioanalyzer using the high sensitivity DNA chip (Agilent, Santa Clara, CA). The mean and variance of each component distribution is estimated using the mixtools package in R. A gene is called expressed if its posterior probability of belonging to the normal distribution with the larger mean is higher than 2/3. However, it is not as simple as it appears and goes beyond the scope of this study. The point that the strength of selection implicated by the empirical estimate of Vm/Vg is too small by an order of magnitude to be consistent with mutation-apparent (pleiotropic) stabilizing selection has been made before (e.g. All types of point mutations can occur spontaneously, during S, G1 and G2 phases of the cell cycle, or by the movement of transposons. As the reviewer points out, this study contains the most comprehensive and accurate estimates of several important genetic parameters and a useful large and open data set, which are important for further advances in this field. It is not obvious how to compare variance in gene expression, but the definition of the trait is not even stated in the main text. To validate mutations detected by Illumina’s sequence-by-synthesis chemistry, we sequenced a randomly selected set of 51 mutations in five MA lines at generation 130 by capillary sequencing (Sanger). Spontaneous mutations occur unpredictably, and among the possible factors responsible for them are tautomeric changes occurring in the DNA bases which alter their pairing characteristics, ionizing radiation from various natural sources, naturally occurring chemical mutagens, and errors in the action of the DNA-polymerizing and correcting enzymes. Second paragraph of the same section: What are the units of measurement here? The normalized probe intensities were log 2 transformed and estimates of gene expression were obtained using median polish, which adjusted probe effect and removed potential outliers. Barring these earlier studies being flawed in some way, this paper doesn't really cover new ground. We now note this limitation and its implications in the Discussion. Definition of Spontaneous Mutation. 4) Charlesworth’s excellent review was specifically for effects of mutations on fitness and its components, not the quantitative traits examined in this manuscript. DNA libraries were prepared from the fragmented DNA using the Illumina TruSeq DNA Sample Preparation Kit (Illumina, San Diego, CA) by following the manufacturer’s procedure. (The distinction here depends of course on what "traits" one defines). Androgen insensitivity syndrome Considered a genetic disorder, 70% of the cases have a familial/genetic link, while 30% appear to be by spontaneous mutation . spontaneous mutation a MUTATION occurring in the absence of a known mutagen. What is a Spontaneous Mutation. Simple theoretical models cannot explain the relatively high spontaneous mutation rate and low genetic variation seen in the quantitative traits of natural populations. Our estimates of mutation rates could be biased either upwards or downwards, depending on the initial fitness of the inbred line. Arrays for DGRP_514, MA-21 and MA-23 were not considered because we lacked sequence information for these lines. The PDF file is then generated automatically by concatenating figures to the end of the text. All other comparisons are directly on and can only be on Vmor Vgbecause the two experiments have different Ve. Barton 1990) and is generally accepted, so we do not understand the reviewer’s objection to this interpretation. one or two copies of the mutated allele produces the phenotype) and semidominant (i.e. With rare alleles, and assuming mutation/selection balance, the selection estimated from Vm/Vg equals the harmonic mean s, weighted by the squared affect on traits. The spontaneous mutation that created the curly-coated Cornish Rex occured twice: … Rarity: Common. Mutagens can be physical, such as radiation from UV rays, X-rays or extreme heat, or chemical (molecules that misplace base pairs or disrupt the helical shape of DNA). A mutation that arises naturally and not as a result of exposure to mutagens. The effect of expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) varies across cell types; however, the complexity of mammalian tissues makes studying cell-type eQTLs highly challenging. We respectively disagree with some of these points. The flies were homogenized with 2 spherical ceramic beads (MP Biomedical) using the TissueLyser (Qiagen) and lysed for 1 hr (56°C) with Cell Lysis Buffer supplemented with RNAse A (1.5 mg) and Proteinase K (12 mg). Spontaneous mutations are the naturally occurring mutations which appear in all cells. Mutation definition. Spotting factor: Gene causing white spotting in the cat¹s coat. We sequenced DNA in G130 to allow sufficient time for mutations to fix, because Sanger sequencing cannot readily distinguish low frequency polymorphisms from background noise and is subject to bias in PCR amplification of alleles. Thus the authors could estimate spontaneous mutation rates for variables ranging from molecular sequence to phenotypes of quantitative traits. Therefore, unless a mutation is highly deleterious or lethal, its fate is determined primarily by genetic drift. We calculated the multinomial likelihood L=(Mm1, m2, …, m16)∏i=116Pimi of the observed mutant frequency distribution, where i indexed one of the 16 equally sized allele frequency bins between 0.2 and 1 ((0.2, 0.25], (0.25, 0.30), …, (0.95, 1]). This means that the mutation can then be passed to future generations. I accept that starting from a single line was a reasonable choice, given the effort involved, and this is now explained better. This requires an enormous number of flies to be sequenced to enable a meaningful comparison. We mean genome-wide gene expression profiles. We entirely agree with the reviewer that mutation rate and mutational variance can be genetically variable and thus specific to each line. Because of the scale of experiment and the large number of MA lines needed to accurately estimate mutational variance, we chose an experimental design that focused on a single inbred strain to derive a relatively large number of MA lines. Sequence composition (GC content, a) and complexity (b) for local sequences (20 bp up and downstream of mutations) are plotted as box plots and compared between different types of mutations. Our estimates of μ, Vm and Vg do not alter the conclusion that simple mutation – stabilizing selection models for either direct or apparent stabilizing selection cannot maintain the observed amounts of segregating genetic variation with the observed mutational input and strong selection: the mutational variance is too low and/or the standing genetic variance is too high (Turelli, 1985; Hill and Keightley, 1988; Barton and Turelli, 1989; Zhang et al., 2002; Turelli and Barton, 2004). So, the differences in Vm/Vg between viability and gene expression are surely to be expected? Nevertheless, earlier studies using multiple MA lines derived from different ancestors did not suggest a large genetic variation in mutation rate (Keightley et al., 2009). In the interests of transparency, eLife includes the editorial decision letter and accompanying author responses. In keeping with the inference that spontaneous mutations accumulated under minimal natural selection, the numbers of mutations per gene was primarily a function of gene length (Figure 6); and there was no gene ontology (GO) category enrichment for genes harboring new mutations (Supplementary file 1C). The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication. A better design would, in some respects, have been to have taken a subset of MA lines from several (a sample of) DGRP lines to assess and allow for genetic variation in mutation rates among the DGRP lines. Vs=20Ve), high heritabilities (e.g. We thank this reviewer for the comments on the interpretation and presentation of data. Proteins were removed from the clear lysates with protein precipitation solution followed by centrifugation. Origin of Spontaneous Mutations: Mutation involves changes in DNA. Even after reading the Methods, I could not work this out. P values were computed by Wilcoxon’s rank sum tests comparing data in each category to the 'Random genomic' category. The number of mutations per MA line ranged from 35 to 193, with a mean of 63 (Supplementary file 1B). For each gene, we first transformed the data to be normally distributed by taking the quantiles of a normal distribution with the mean equal to the median expression and the variance equal to the square of the median absolute deviation (by a scaling factor of 1.4824 to account for the expected difference of median absolute deviation and variance, which has no effect on the statistical inference). We did a preliminary normalization and stringently removed arrays that appeared to be contaminated by flies of the opposite sex or contained more than 1% of genes whose expression was more than five standard deviations higher or lower than the mean expression of the same genes across all arrays. We partitioned the phenotypic variation observed among the collective sample of individuals from the MA lines into the between-line genetic variation due to mutations (VMA) and the within-line variation due to environmental or technical noise (Ve). Rather, Vm/Vg gives an estimate of the net selection on each allele. All Sets: Card Number: 74. Total RNA was extracted using the miRNeasy 96 kit (Qiagen) with on-column DNAse I digestion and following the spin technology protocol as outlined in the manufacturer’s manual. First appeared in 1610, based on the French word “baguette” for the long loaf of bread. hm2 for organismal traits ranged between 0.30 x 10–3 and 2.88 x 10–3, of the same order of magnitude as observed in earlier studies (Houle et al., 1996). Trying to be ordinary, plain-spoken, and spontaneous made it worse. This is a revision of a major paper I refereed earlier. This is a known limitation of MA lines, which must be free of lethal and highly deleterious mutations to keep them alive. Your revised article has been favorably evaluated by Diethard Tautz (Senior editor), a Reviewing editor, and three reviewers. In this study, we combined the classical mutation accumulation design, which subjects inbred lines of Drosophila melanogaster to genetic bottlenecks for many generations, with modern high throughput technologies. We used these estimates of effective population size to estimate the spontaneous mutation rate on the X chromosome and autosomes, given the number of observed mutations in each line, taking into account variable sequence coverage in each line. Pi is the probability of observing a mutant allele in the ith bin given the expected mutant frequency distribution based on simulation, and m1,m2, ⋯, m16  are the number of mutations in each bin and summed to M. We inferred effective population size for autosomes and X chromosomes separately. The variances and distributions of traits among these lines were compared with those among the DGRP lines and differences used to infer the degree of selection operating in the new lines. By comparing the expectation under neutrality to the observed level of genetic variation in a natural population, one can infer the form and consequences of natural selection on genetic variation (Figure 1). However, the spontaneous mutation typically occurs at such an early stage of development that it is present in all the cells, including sperm and egg cells. However, this is primarily due to technical limitations because mutation rate is sensitive to environmental and physiological factors that cannot be easily controlled and it is prohibitive to collect genetic data on mutation rates in natural populations. However, the extent of depletion of exonic spontaneous mutations was much weaker – the spectrum of spontaneous mutations detected in the MA lines more closely reflected the proportion of exonic, intronic and intergenic bases in the genome (Figure 5a). Moreover, because we need to estimate mutational variance accurately for a large number of traits, we are more concerned with their accuracy than mutation rate per se. Although spontaneous mutations occurred at a relatively low rate of 6.60 × 10–9 averaged over autosomes and the X chromosome, they replenished genetic variation at a significant rate for gene expression (sex averaged rate = 0.65 × 10–3Ve per generation) and organismal traits (sex averaged rate = 1.36 × 10–3Ve per generation). The main consideration at the time of designing the experiment was to balance cost and accuracy. For simplicity, we assumed additivity so that a one dimensional range can be provided. Consistent with this notion, we found stronger selection on genes that would cause trans pleiotropic effects such as transcription factors (Supplementary file 1G). Third, we partitioned the genome with respect to GO categories and assessed the significance of the difference of Vm/Vg for genes associated with each GO category and those not in the category. All other comments have also been carefully considered. Spontaneous Mutation. Definition of mutation: ... Spontaneous mutations are miraculous. We agree. Only lines whose median filtered coverage was above 15 were considered for mutation detection. The reviewers also had a number of other suggestions to be taken into account; in particular, it would be helpful to discuss the possibility that MA lines have higher mutation rates than do natural populations. For each 2Ne value ranging from 10 to 40, we simulated 1,000,000 MA lines where one mutation occurred independently per line per generation. … Regarding the test of the spectrum of mutations, we do not expect exact agreement between this work and earlier studies because different bioinformatic procedures can have significant effects on the inference of the mutation spectrum. 12 μg of purified biotin-labeled aRNA were fragmented and hybridized to GeneChip Drosophila Genome 2.0 arrays (Affymetrix). These values were near or among the upper quartile of that for gene expression traits with the exception of abdominal bristle number in males (Supplementary file 1D). Read the. An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality. The analysis is fairly sophisticated (though not well explained), and the estimates are remarkably close to those from previous studies, and estimated by less direct methods. The sequences contained many more “high-impact” mutations (which directly affect how proteins in the fly’s cells work) than seen in sequences taken from a natural fly population. At equilibrium, the among-line variance between a set of inbred lines such as the DGRP (Vg) is approximately 4NVm, where N is the effective population size (Lynch and Hill, 1986) of the wild population from which the DGRP was derived. Under simple pleiotropic models of apparent stabilizing selection (all mutations are equally deleterious and have a reduction of heterozygous fitness of s, and the strength of selection is strong (~10–2) against new mutations) the equilibrium genetic variance is Vg=Vm/s and s=Vm/Vg. These limitations have now been acknowledged both in the Introduction and in Discussion. The whole idea seems to me a very nice one, and the scale of this experiment is enormous. To avoid confusion, we have revised the relevant text. A total of 23 out of the 368 arrays were removed before a final normalization was performed on the remaining 345 arrays. Here, we will focus on those errors that might occur during the DNA r eplication process or result from harmful agents in the environment. This implies either that non-genetic factors affect mutagenesis and/or that some spontaneous mutations themselves affect mutation rate; the latter is less plausible because such mutations must occur early in many lines to have a pronounced effect. Murder: Differences In Intent And Degree. A reversible transversion is possible in the case of … The between-line variance for MA lines VMA under a neutral and polygenic model is approximately, VMA=kVm, where k=2[ t−(2Ne−5)(1−e−t2Ne) ], t=60 (for gene expression traits) or 61 (for organismal traits) is the number of generations since the lines were established, Ne is the effective population size (2Ne=21) by taking the average of autosomes and X chromosomes) and Vm is the mutational variance (Lynch and Hill, 1986; Mackay et al., 1992). Each sample was diluted to 5 ng/ul and subjected to PCR using 95 primer pairs (Supplementary file 1B) with the following cycling parameters: 95°C for 2 min followed by 30 cycles of 95°C / 30 s + 56°C / 30 s + 72°C / 30 s followed by a final extension step at 72°C for 4 min. The estimates of Ne did not differ whether or not presumably non-neutral mutations (mutations that changed amino acids) were included, further suggesting that drift was the primary force driving mutation frequency dynamics in these MA lines. A lightly edited version of the letter sent to the authors after peer review is shown, indicating the most substantive concerns; minor comments are not usually included. Hence the estimates of mutation rate and of stabilising selection effects in comparing the MA and DGRP lines is, presumably, sensitive to choice of DGRP line. Within each sex (females in a, males in b), the distribution of median expression for each gene across the MA lines is subject to a mixture model analysis with two normal components. Haplotype-based variant detection from short-read sequencing, arXiv.org, https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.3907. For each GO category, we compared the mutational variance of genes in the category to those not in the category. 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