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We propose a heuristic approach to the detection of evidence for recombination and gene conversion in multiple DNA sequence alignments.  The proposed method consists of two stages. In the first stage, a sliding window is moved along the DNA sequence alignment, and phylogenetic trees are sampled from the conditional posterior distribution with MCMC. To reduce the noise  intrinsic to inference from the limited amount  of data available in the typically short sliding window, a clustering algorithm based on the Robinson-Foulds distance is applied to the trees thus sampled, and the posterior distribution over tree clusters is obtained for each window position. While changes in this posterior distribution are indicative of recombination or gene conversion events, it is difficult to decide when such a change is statistically significant. This problem is addressed in the second stage of the proposed algorithm, where the distributions obtained in the  first stage are post-processed with a Bayesian hidden Markov model (HMM). The emission states of the HMM are associated with posterior  distributions over phylogenetic tree topology clusters. The hidden states of the HMM indicate putative  recombinant segments. Inference is done in a Bayesian sense, sampling parameters from the posterior distribution with MCMC. Of particular interest is the determination of the number of hidden states as an indication of the number of putative recombinant regions. To this end, we apply reversible jump MCMC, and sample the number of hidden states from the respective posterior distribution.

A Heuristic Bayesian Method for Segmenting DNA Sequence Alignments and Detecting Evidence for Recombination and Gene Conversion