A hierarchical clustering analysis of the top 50 genes with missense SNPs was conducted by the clustergram function in the Matlab Bioinformatics toolbox with minor changes. GO analysis was performed with Fisher’s Exact Test and classified under three categories: biological process (BP), cellular component (CC), and molecular function (MF) [52]. Meanwhile, the detected positively selected genes were mapped to the terms of KEGG (http://www.genome.jp/kegg/) database to explore main biological functions [53], and the assignment of differential genes to different gene families was realized using Pfam (protein families) (http://pfam.xfam.org/) annotation [54].
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