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Corneveaux JJ, Kruer MC, Hu-Lince D, Ramsey KE, Zismann VL, Stephan DA, Craig DW, Huentelman MJ. SNP-based chromosomal copy number ascertainment following multiple displacement whole-genome amplification. Biotechniques 2007; 42:77-83. [PMID: 17269488 DOI: 10.2144/000112308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Whole genome amplification by multiple displacement amplification (MDA) offers investigators using precious genomic DNA samples a high fidelity method for amplifying nanogram quantities of DNA several thousandfold. This becomes especially important for the modemrn day genomics researcher who more and more commonly is applying today's genome scanning technologies to patient cohort samples collected years ago that are irrecoverable and invariably in short supply. We present evidence here that MDA-prepared genomic DNA includes artifacts of chromosomal copy number that resemble copy number polymorphisms (CNPs) upon analysis of the DNA on the Affymetrix 10K GeneChip. The study of CNPs in both health and disease is a rapidly growing area of research, however our current understanding of the relevance of CNPs is incomplete. Our data indicate that utilization of whole genome-amplified samples for analysis heavily reliant on accurate copy number retention could be confounded if the genomic DNA sample was subjected to MDA. We recommend that small amounts of patient cohort DNA stocks be set aside and not subjected to whole genome amplification in order to facilitate the unbiased determination of chromosomal copy numbers when desired.
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Kehrer-Sawatzki H, Cooper DN. Understanding the recent evolution of the human genome: insights from human-chimpanzee genome comparisons. Hum Mutat 2007; 28:99-130. [PMID: 17024666 DOI: 10.1002/humu.20420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The sequencing of the chimpanzee genome and the comparison with its human counterpart have begun to reveal the spectrum of genetic changes that has accompanied human evolution. In addition to gross karyotypic rearrangements such as the fusion that formed human chromosome 2 and the human-specific pericentric inversions of chromosomes 1 and 18, there is considerable submicroscopic structural variation involving deletions, duplications, and inversions. Lineage-specific segmental duplications, detected by array comparative genomic hybridization and direct sequence comparison, have made a very significant contribution to this structural divergence, which is at least three-fold greater than that due to nucleotide substitutions. Since structural genomic changes may have given rise to irreversible functional differences between the diverging species, their detailed analysis could help to identify the biological processes that have accompanied speciation. To this end, interspecies comparisons have revealed numerous human-specific gains and losses of genes as well as changes in gene expression. The very considerable structural diversity (polymorphism) evident within both lineages has, however, hampered the analysis of the structural divergence between the human and chimpanzee genomes. The concomitant evaluation of genetic divergence and diversity at the nucleotide level has nevertheless served to identify many genes that have evolved under positive selection and may thus have been involved in the development of human lineage-specific traits. Genes that display signs of weak negative selection have also been identified and could represent candidate loci for complex genomic disorders. Here, we review recent progress in comparing the human and chimpanzee genomes and discuss how the differences detected have improved our understanding of the evolution of the human genome.
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Marques-Bonet T, Sànchez-Ruiz J, Armengol L, Khaja R, Bertranpetit J, Lopez-Bigas N, Rocchi M, Gazave E, Navarro A. On the association between chromosomal rearrangements and genic evolution in humans and chimpanzees. Genome Biol 2007; 8:R230. [PMID: 17971225 PMCID: PMC2246304 DOI: 10.1186/gb-2007-8-10-r230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2006] [Revised: 10/12/2007] [Accepted: 10/30/2007] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The role that chromosomal rearrangements might have played in the speciation processes that have separated the lineages of humans and chimpanzees has recently come into the spotlight. To date, however, results are contradictory. Here we revisit this issue by making use of the available human and chimpanzee genome sequence to study the relationship between chromosomal rearrangements and rates of DNA sequence evolution. RESULTS Contrary to previous findings for this pair of species, we show that genes located in the rearranged chromosomes that differentiate the genomes of humans and chimpanzees, especially genes within rearrangements themselves, present lower divergence than genes elsewhere in the genome. Still, there are considerable differences between individual chromosomes. Chromosome 4, in particular, presents higher divergence in genes located within its rearrangement. CONCLUSION A first conclusion of our analysis is that divergence is lower for genes located in rearranged chromosomes than for those in colinear chromosomes. We also report that non-coding regions within rearranged regions tend to have lower divergence than non-coding regions outside them. These results suggest an association between chromosomal rearrangements and lower non-coding divergence that has not been reported before, even if some chromosomes do not follow this trend and could be potentially associated with a speciation episode. In summary, without excluding it, our results suggest that chromosomal speciation has not been common along the human and chimpanzee lineage.
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- Tomàs Marques-Bonet
- Unitat de Biologia Evolutiva Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona. Dr. Aiguader 88. 08003 Barcelona. Catalonia, Spain
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- Unitat de Biologia Evolutiva Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona. Dr. Aiguader 88. 08003 Barcelona. Catalonia, Spain
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- Genes and Disease Program, Center for Genomic Regulation,. Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona. Dr. Aiguader 88, 1. 08003 Barcelona. Catalonia, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Spain
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- The Center for Applied Genomics. The Hospital for Sick Children. MaRS Centre - East Tower. 101 College Street, Room 14-706. Toronto, Ontario. Canada
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- Unitat de Biologia Evolutiva Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona. Dr. Aiguader 88. 08003 Barcelona. Catalonia, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Spain
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- Research Unit on Biomedical Informatics of IMIM/UPF. Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona. Dr. Aiguader 88. 08003 Barcelona. Catalonia, Spain
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- Dipartimento di Genetica e Microbiologia. Universita di Bari, Bari, Italy
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- Unitat de Biologia Evolutiva Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona. Dr. Aiguader 88. 08003 Barcelona. Catalonia, Spain
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- Unitat de Biologia Evolutiva Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona. Dr. Aiguader 88. 08003 Barcelona. Catalonia, Spain
- Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats (ICREA) and Unitat de Biologia Evolutiva, Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona. Plaça Dr. Aiguader 88. 08003 Barcelona. Catalonia, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Spain
- Population Genomics Node (GNV8) National Institute for Bioinformatics (INB), Spain
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Tibayrenc M. Human Genetic Diversity and the Epidemiology of Parasitic and Other Transmissible Diseases. ADVANCES IN PARASITOLOGY 2007; 64:377-422. [PMID: 17499103 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-308x(06)64004-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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This paper aims to review human genetic studies that are generally poorly known by parasitologists and scientists working on other pathogenic agents. The key proposals of this paper are as follows: (i) human susceptibility to transmissible diseases may often have a complex, multigenic background; (ii) recent discoveries indicate that major genomic rearrangements may be involved, possibly more so than DNA sequence; (iii) it is crucial to have a general population genetics framework of the human species based on neutral/historical markers to analyse reliably genetic susceptibility to infectious diseases; and (iv) the population level is a key factor. Ethnic diversity, a highly adaptive genetically driven phenotypic diversity, is possibly a valuable source for exploring human genetic susceptibility to transmissible diseases, since different populations have been exposed to drastically different geographic/climatic environments and different pathogens and vectors for tens of thousands of years. Studies dealing with human genetic susceptibility to transmissible diseases have mostly been based on the hypothesis that this factor is driven by only one or a few genes, and considered the individual more than the population level. Two different approaches have been developed for identifying the genes involved: (i) candidate genes and (ii) blind association studies (linkage analysis), screening the genome with a large number of high-resolution markers. Some loci involved in susceptibility to leishmaniosis, malaria and schistosomosis, for example, have already been identified. South American trypanosomosis (Chagas disease) is reviewed in detail to show the methodological problems of this classical approach. Current knowledge on the general impact of transmissible diseases on human genetic diversity, mainly HLA polymorphism, and the hopes raised by recent major international programmes such as the Human Genome Project (HGP), Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP), International Human Haplotype Map Project (Hap Map) and extended databases, networks and networks of networks will also be reviewed.
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- Michel Tibayrenc
- Institut pour la Recherche et Développement (IRD) Representative Office, French Embassy, 29 Thanon Sathorn Tai, Bangkok 10120, Thailand
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Bansal V, Bashir A, Bafna V. Evidence for large inversion polymorphisms in the human genome from HapMap data. Genome Res 2006; 17:219-30. [PMID: 17185644 PMCID: PMC1781354 DOI: 10.1101/gr.5774507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Knowledge about structural variation in the human genome has grown tremendously in the past few years. However, inversions represent a class of structural variation that remains difficult to detect. We present a statistical method to identify large inversion polymorphisms using unusual Linkage Disequilibrium (LD) patterns from high-density SNP data. The method is designed to detect chromosomal segments that are inverted (in a majority of the chromosomes) in a population with respect to the reference human genome sequence. We demonstrate the power of this method to detect such inversion polymorphisms through simulations done using the HapMap data. Application of this method to the data from the first phase of the International HapMap project resulted in 176 candidate inversions ranging from 200 kb to several megabases in length. Our predicted inversions include an 800-kb polymorphic inversion at 7p22, a 1.1-Mb inversion at 16p12, and a novel 1.2-Mb inversion on chromosome 10 that is supported by the presence of two discordant fosmids. Analysis of the genomic sequence around inversion breakpoints showed that 11 predicted inversions are flanked by pairs of highly homologous repeats in the inverted orientation. In addition, for three candidate inversions, the inverted orientation is represented in the Celera genome assembly. Although the power of our method to detect inversions is restricted because of inherently noisy LD patterns in population data, inversions predicted by our method represent strong candidates for experimental validation and analysis.
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- Vikas Bansal
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0004, USA.
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Roberto R, Capozzi O, Wilson RK, Mardis ER, Lomiento M, Tuzun E, Cheng Z, Mootnick AR, Archidiacono N, Rocchi M, Eichler EE. Molecular refinement of gibbon genome rearrangements. Genome Res 2006; 17:249-57. [PMID: 17185643 PMCID: PMC1781357 DOI: 10.1101/gr.6052507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The gibbon karyotype is known to be extensively rearranged when compared to the human and to the ancestral primate karyotype. By combining a bioinformatics (paired-end sequence analysis) approach and a molecular cytogenetics approach, we have refined the synteny block arrangement of the white-cheeked gibbon (Nomascus leucogenys, NLE) with respect to the human genome. We provide the first detailed clone framework map of the gibbon genome and refine the location of 86 evolutionary breakpoints to <1 Mb resolution. An additional 12 breakpoints, mapping primarily to centromeric and telomeric regions, were mapped to approximately 5 Mb resolution. Our combined FISH and BES analysis indicates that we have effectively subcloned 49 of these breakpoints within NLE gibbon BAC clones, mapped to a median resolution of 79.7 kb. Interestingly, many of the intervals associated with translocations were gene-rich, including some genes associated with normal skeletal development. Comparisons of NLE breakpoints with those of other gibbon species reveal variability in the position, suggesting that chromosomal rearrangement has been a longstanding property of this particular ape lineage. Our data emphasize the synergistic effect of combining computational genomics and cytogenetics and provide a framework for ultimate sequence and assembly of the gibbon genome.
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- Roberta Roberto
- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Washington University Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63108, USA
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- Washington University Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63108, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Gibbon Conservation Center, Santa Clarita, California 91380, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy
- Corresponding authors.E-mail ; fax 39-080-544-3386.E-mail ; fax (206) 221-5795
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
- Corresponding authors.E-mail ; fax 39-080-544-3386.E-mail ; fax (206) 221-5795
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Carson AR, Feuk L, Mohammed M, Scherer SW. Strategies for the detection of copy number and other structural variants in the human genome. Hum Genomics 2006; 2:403-14. [PMID: 16848978 PMCID: PMC3525157 DOI: 10.1186/1479-7364-2-6-403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/08/2022] Open
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Advances in genome scanning technologies are revealing that copy number variants (CNVs) and polymorphisms, ranging from a few kilobases to several megabases in size, are present in genomes at frequencies much greater than previously known. Discoveries of additional forms of genomic variation, including inversions, insertions, deletions and complex rearrangements, are also occurring at an increased rate. Along with CNVs, these sequence alterations are collectively known as structural variants, and their discovery has had an immediate impact on the interpretation of basic research and clinical diagnostic data. This paper discusses different methods, experimental strategies and technologies that are currently available to study copy number variation and other structural variants in the human genome.
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- Andrew R Carson
- The Centre for Applied Genomics and Program in Genetics and Genomic Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- The Centre for Applied Genomics and Program in Genetics and Genomic Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- The Centre for Applied Genomics and Program in Genetics and Genomic Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Focusing on comparative ape population genetics in the post-genomic age. Curr Opin Genet Dev 2006; 16:586-91. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2006.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2006] [Accepted: 09/15/2006] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Fiegler H, Redon R, Andrews D, Scott C, Andrews R, Carder C, Clark R, Dovey O, Ellis P, Feuk L, French L, Hunt P, Kalaitzopoulos D, Larkin J, Montgomery L, Perry GH, Plumb BW, Porter K, Rigby RE, Rigler D, Valsesia A, Langford C, Humphray SJ, Scherer SW, Lee C, Hurles ME, Carter NP. Accurate and reliable high-throughput detection of copy number variation in the human genome. Genes Dev 2006; 16:1566-74. [PMID: 17122085 PMCID: PMC1665640 DOI: 10.1101/gr.5630906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2006] [Accepted: 08/24/2006] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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This study describes a new tool for accurate and reliable high-throughput detection of copy number variation in the human genome. We have constructed a large-insert clone DNA microarray covering the entire human genome in tiling path resolution that we have used to identify copy number variation in human populations. Crucial to this study has been the development of a robust array platform and analytic process for the automated identification of copy number variants (CNVs). The array consists of 26,574 clones covering 93.7% of euchromatic regions. Clones were selected primarily from the published "Golden Path," and mapping was confirmed by fingerprinting and BAC-end sequencing. Array performance was extensively tested by a series of validation assays. These included determining the hybridization characteristics of each individual clone on the array by chromosome-specific add-in experiments. Estimation of data reproducibility and false-positive/negative rates was carried out using self-self hybridizations, replicate experiments, and independent validations of CNVs. Based on these studies, we developed a variance-based automatic copy number detection analysis process (CNVfinder) and have demonstrated its robustness by comparison with the SW-ARRAY method.
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- Heike Fiegler
- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
- Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, MSG IL7, Canada
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
- Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, MSG IL7, Canada
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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Simon-Sanchez J, Scholz S, Fung HC, Matarin M, Hernandez D, Gibbs JR, Britton A, de Vrieze FW, Peckham E, Gwinn-Hardy K, Crawley A, Keen JC, Nash J, Borgaonkar D, Hardy J, Singleton A. Genome-wide SNP assay reveals structural genomic variation, extended homozygosity and cell-line induced alterations in normal individuals. Hum Mol Genet 2006; 16:1-14. [PMID: 17116639 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddl436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 184] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The recent hapmap effort has placed focus on the application of genome-wide SNP analysis to assess the contribution of genetic variability, particularly SNPs, to traits such as disease. Here, we describe the utility of genome-wide SNP analysis in the direct detection of extended homozygosity and structural genomic variation. We use this approach to assess the frequency of genomic alterations resulting from the lymphoblast immortalization and culture processes commonly used in cell repositories. We have assayed 408 804 SNPs in 276 DNA samples extracted from Epstein-Barr virus immortalized cell lines, which were derived from lymphocytes of elderly neurologically normal subjects. These data reveal extended homozygosity (contiguous tracts >5 Mb) in 9.5% (26/272) and 340 structural genomic alterations in 182 (66.9%) DNA samples assessed, 66% of which did not overlap with previously described structural variations. Examination of DNA extracted directly from the blood of 30 of these subjects confirmed all examined instances of extended homozygosity (6/6), 75% of structural genomic alteration <5 Mb in size (12/16) and 13% (1/8) of structural genomic alteration >5 Mb in size. These data suggest that structural genomic variation is a common phenomenon in the general population. While a proportion of this variability may be caused or its relative abundance altered by the immortalization and clonal process this will have only a minor effect on genotype and allele frequencies in a large cohort. It is likely that this powerful methodology will augment existing techniques in the identification of chromosomal abnormalities.
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- Javier Simon-Sanchez
- Molecular Genetics Unit, Departamento de Genómica y Proteómica, Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia-CSIC, 46010, Valencia, Spain
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Carbone L, Vessere GM, ten Hallers BFH, Zhu B, Osoegawa K, Mootnick A, Kofler A, Wienberg J, Rogers J, Humphray S, Scott C, Harris RA, Milosavljevic A, de Jong PJ. A high-resolution map of synteny disruptions in gibbon and human genomes. PLoS Genet 2006; 2:e223. [PMID: 17196042 PMCID: PMC1756914 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2006] [Accepted: 11/13/2006] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Gibbons are part of the same superfamily (Hominoidea) as humans and great apes, but their karyotype has diverged faster from the common hominoid ancestor. At least 24 major chromosome rearrangements are required to convert the presumed ancestral karyotype of gibbons into that of the hominoid ancestor. Up to 28 additional rearrangements distinguish the various living species from the common gibbon ancestor. Using the northern white-cheeked gibbon (2n = 52) (Nomascus leucogenys leucogenys) as a model, we created a high-resolution map of the homologous regions between the gibbon and human. The positions of 100 synteny breakpoints relative to the assembled human genome were determined at a resolution of about 200 kb. Interestingly, 46% of the gibbon–human synteny breakpoints occur in regions that correspond to segmental duplications in the human lineage, indicating a common source of plasticity leading to a different outcome in the two species. Additionally, the full sequences of 11 gibbon BACs spanning evolutionary breakpoints reveal either segmental duplications or interspersed repeats at the exact breakpoint locations. No specific sequence element appears to be common among independent rearrangements. We speculate that the extraordinarily high level of rearrangements seen in gibbons may be due to factors that increase the incidence of chromosome breakage or fixation of the derivative chromosomes in a homozygous state. It is commonly accepted that mammalian chromosomes have undergone a limited number of rearrangements during the course of more than 100 million years of evolution. Surprisingly, some species have experienced a large increase in the incidence of rearrangements, including translocations (exchange between two non-homologous chromosomes), inversions (change of orientation of one chromosomal segment), fissions, and fusions. Within the primate order, gibbons exhibit the most strikingly unstable chromosome pattern. Gibbon chromosomal structure greatly differs from that of their most recent common ancestor with humans from which they diverged over 15 million years ago. The authors are interested in the mechanisms causing this extraordinary instability. In this study, they employed modern techniques to compare the human and white-cheeked gibbon chromosomes and to localize all the regions of disrupted homology between the two species. Their findings indicate that the molecular mechanism of gibbon chromosomal reshuffling is based on the same principles as in other mammalian species. To explain the 10-fold higher incidence of gibbon chromosomal rearrangements, it will be necessary to pursue future studies into other biological factors such as inbreeding and population dynamics.
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- Lucia Carbone
- BACPAC Resources, Children's Hospital of Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America.
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Chen FC, Chen CJ, Li WH, Chuang TJ. Human-specific insertions and deletions inferred from mammalian genome sequences. Genome Res 2006; 17:16-22. [PMID: 17095709 PMCID: PMC1716262 DOI: 10.1101/gr.5429606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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It has been suggested that insertions and deletions (indels) have contributed to the sequence divergence between the human and chimpanzee genomes more than do nucleotide changes (3% vs. 1.2%). However, although there have been studies of large indels between the two genomes, no systematic analysis of small indels (i.e., indels </= 100 bp) has been published. In this study, we first estimated that the false-positive rate of small indels inferred from human-chimpanzee pairwise sequence alignments is quite high, suggesting that the chimpanzee genome draft is not sufficiently accurate for our purpose. We have therefore inferred only human-specific indels using multiple sequence alignments of mammalian genomes. We identified >840,000 "small" indels, which affect >7000 UCSC-annotated human genes (>11,000 transcripts). These indels, however, amount to only approximately 0.21% sequence change in the human lineage for the regions compared, whereas in pseudogenes indels contribute to a sequence divergence of 1.40%, suggesting that most of the indels that occurred in genic regions have been eliminated. Functional analysis reveals that the genes whose coding exons have been affected by human-specific indels are enriched in transcription and translation regulatory activities but are underrepresented in catalytic and transporter activities, cellular and physiological processes, and extracellular region/matrix. This functional bias suggests that human-specific indels might have contributed to human unique traits by causing changes at the RNA and protein level.
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- Feng-Chi Chen
- Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, National Health Research Institute, Miaoli County 350, Taiwan
- Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
- Corresponding authors.E-mail ; fax (773) 702-9740.E-mail ; fax (886) 2-27898757
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- Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
- Corresponding authors.E-mail ; fax (773) 702-9740.E-mail ; fax (886) 2-27898757
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Kehrer-Sawatzki H, Cooper DN. Structural divergence between the human and chimpanzee genomes. Hum Genet 2006; 120:759-78. [PMID: 17066299 DOI: 10.1007/s00439-006-0270-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2006] [Accepted: 09/19/2006] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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The structural microheterogeneity evident between the human and chimpanzee genomes is quite considerable and includes inversions and duplications as well as deletions, ranging in size from a few base-pairs up to several megabases (Mb). Insertions and deletions have together given rise to at least 150 Mb of genomic DNA sequence that is either present or absent in humans as compared to chimpanzees. Such regions often contain paralogous sequences and members of multigene families thereby ensuring that the human and chimpanzee genomes differ by a significant fraction of their gene content. There is as yet no evidence to suggest that the large chromosomal rearrangements which serve to distinguish the human and chimpanzee karyotypes have influenced either speciation or the evolution of lineage-specific traits. However, the myriad submicroscopic rearrangements in both genomes, particularly those involving copy number variation, are unlikely to represent exclusively neutral changes and hence promise to facilitate the identification of genes that have been important for human-specific evolution.
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Donaldson IJ, Göttgens B. Evolution of candidate transcriptional regulatory motifs since the human-chimpanzee divergence. Genome Biol 2006; 7:R52. [PMID: 16808854 PMCID: PMC1779530 DOI: 10.1186/gb-2006-7-6-r52] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2006] [Revised: 06/01/2006] [Accepted: 06/09/2006] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Despite the recent completion of the chimpanzee genome project, few functionally significant sequence differences between humans and chimpanzees have thus far been identified. Alteration in transcriptional regulatory mechanisms represents an important platform for evolutionary change, suggesting that a significant proportion of functional human-chimpanzee sequence differences may affect regulatory elements. RESULTS To explore this hypothesis, we performed genome-wide identification of conserved candidate transcription-factor binding sites that have evolved since the divergence of humans and chimpanzees. Analysis of candidate transcription-factor binding sites conserved between mouse and chimpanzee yet absent in human indicated that loss of candidate transcription-factor binding sites in the human lineage was not random but instead correlated with the biologic functions of associated genes. CONCLUSION Our data support the notion that changes in transcriptional regulation have contributed to the recent evolution of humans. Moreover, genes associated with mutated candidate transcription-factor binding sites highlight potential pathways underlying human-chimpanzee divergence.
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- Ian J Donaldson
- Department of Haematology, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 2XY, UK
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- Department of Haematology, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 2XY, UK
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Fredlake CP, Hert DG, Mardis ER, Barron AE. What is the future of electrophoresis in large-scale genomic sequencing? Electrophoresis 2006; 27:3689-702. [PMID: 17031784 DOI: 10.1002/elps.200600408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Although a finished human genome reference sequence is now available, the ability to sequence large, complex genomes remains critically important for researchers in the biological sciences, and in particular, continued human genomic sequence determination will ultimately help to realize the promise of medical care tailored to an individual's unique genetic identity. Many new technologies are being developed to decrease the costs and to dramatically increase the data acquisition rate of such sequencing projects. These new sequencing approaches include Sanger reaction-based technologies that have electrophoresis as the final separation step as well as those that use completely novel, nonelectrophoretic methods to generate sequence data. In this review, we discuss the various advances in sequencing technologies and evaluate the current limitations of novel methods that currently preclude their complete acceptance in large-scale sequencing projects. Our primary goal is to analyze and predict the continuing role of electrophoresis in large-scale DNA sequencing, both in the near and longer term.
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- Christopher P Fredlake
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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Sikela JM. The jewels of our genome: the search for the genomic changes underlying the evolutionarily unique capacities of the human brain. PLoS Genet 2006; 2:e80. [PMID: 16733552 PMCID: PMC1464830 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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The recent publication of the initial sequence and analysis of the chimp genome allows us, for the first time, to compare our genome with that of our closest living evolutionary relative. With more primate genome sequences being pursued, and with other genome-wide, cross-species comparative techniques emerging, we are entering an era in which we will be able to carry out genomic comparisons of unprecedented scope and detail. These studies should yield a bounty of new insights about the genes and genomic features that are unique to our species as well as those that are unique to other primate lineages, and may begin to causally link some of these to lineage-specific phenotypic characteristics. The most intriguing potential of these new approaches will be in the area of evolutionary neurogenomics and in the possibility that the key human lineage–specific (HLS) genomic changes that underlie the evolution of the human brain will be identified. Such new knowledge should provide fresh insights into neuronal development and higher cognitive function and dysfunction, and may possibly uncover biological mechanisms for information storage, analysis, and retrieval never previously seen.
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- James M Sikela
- Human Medical Genetics Program, Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, USA.
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Goidts V, Cooper DN, Armengol L, Schempp W, Conroy J, Estivill X, Nowak N, Hameister H, Kehrer-Sawatzki H. Complex patterns of copy number variation at sites of segmental duplications: an important category of structural variation in the human genome. Hum Genet 2006; 120:270-84. [PMID: 16838144 DOI: 10.1007/s00439-006-0217-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2006] [Accepted: 05/26/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The structural diversity of the human genome is much higher than previously assumed although its full extent remains unknown. To investigate the association between segmental duplications that display constitutive copy number differences (CNDs) between humans and the great apes and those which exhibit polymorphic copy number variations (CNVs) between humans, we analysed a BAC array enriched with segmental duplications displaying such CNDs. This study documents for the first time that in addition to human-specific gains common to all humans, these duplication clusters (DCs) also exhibit polymorphic CNVs > 40 kb. Segmental duplication is known to have been a frequent event during human genome evolution. Importantly, among the CNV-associated genes identified here, those involved in transcriptional regulation were found to be significantly overrepresented. Complex patterns of variation were evident at sites of DCs, manifesting as inter-individual differentially sized copy number alterations at the same genomic loci. Thus, CNVs associated with segmental duplications do not simply represent insertion/deletion polymorphisms, but rather constitute a wide variety of rearrangements involving differential amplification and partial gains and losses with high inter-individual variability. Although the number of CNVs was not found to differ between Africans and Caucasians/Asians, the average number of variant patterns per locus was significantly lower in Africans. Thus, complex variation patterns characterizing segmental duplications result from relatively recent genomic rearrangements. The high number of these rearrangements, some of which are potentially recurrent, together with differences in population size and expansion dynamics, may account for the greater diversity of CNV in Caucasians/Asians as compared with Africans.
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- Violaine Goidts
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Ulm, Albert Einstein Allee 11, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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Sen SK, Han K, Wang J, Lee J, Wang H, Callinan PA, Dyer M, Cordaux R, Liang P, Batzer MA. Human genomic deletions mediated by recombination between Alu elements. Am J Hum Genet 2006; 79:41-53. [PMID: 16773564 PMCID: PMC1474114 DOI: 10.1086/504600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 233] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2006] [Accepted: 03/22/2006] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Recombination between Alu elements results in genomic deletions associated with many human genetic disorders. Here, we compare the reference human and chimpanzee genomes to determine the magnitude of this recombination process in the human lineage since the human-chimpanzee divergence approximately 6 million years ago. Combining computational data mining and wet-bench experimental verification, we identified 492 human-specific deletions (for a total of approximately 400 kb) attributable to this process, a significant component of the insertion/deletion spectrum of the human genome. The majority of the deletions (295 of 492) coincide with known or predicted genes (including 3 that deleted functional exons, as compared with orthologous chimpanzee genes), which implicates this process in creating a substantial portion of the genomic differences between humans and chimpanzees. Overall, we found that Alu recombination-mediated genomic deletion has had a much higher impact than was inferred from previously identified isolated events and that it continues to contribute to the dynamic nature of the human genome.
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- Shurjo K Sen
- Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 70803, USA
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Freeman JL, Perry GH, Feuk L, Redon R, McCarroll SA, Altshuler DM, Aburatani H, Jones KW, Tyler-Smith C, Hurles ME, Carter NP, Scherer SW, Lee C. Copy number variation: new insights in genome diversity. Genome Res 2006; 16:949-61. [PMID: 16809666 DOI: 10.1101/gr.3677206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 545] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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DNA copy number variation has long been associated with specific chromosomal rearrangements and genomic disorders, but its ubiquity in mammalian genomes was not fully realized until recently. Although our understanding of the extent of this variation is still developing, it seems likely that, at least in humans, copy number variants (CNVs) account for a substantial amount of genetic variation. Since many CNVs include genes that result in differential levels of gene expression, CNVs may account for a significant proportion of normal phenotypic variation. Current efforts are directed toward a more comprehensive cataloging and characterization of CNVs that will provide the basis for determining how genomic diversity impacts biological function, evolution, and common human diseases.
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- Jennifer L Freeman
- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Szamalek JM, Goidts V, Cooper DN, Hameister H, Kehrer-Sawatzki H. Characterization of the human lineage-specific pericentric inversion that distinguishes human chromosome 1 from the homologous chromosomes of the great apes. Hum Genet 2006; 120:126-38. [PMID: 16775709 DOI: 10.1007/s00439-006-0209-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2006] [Accepted: 05/16/2006] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The human and chimpanzee genomes are distinguishable in terms of ten gross karyotypic differences including nine pericentric inversions and a chromosomal fusion. Seven of these large pericentric inversions are chimpanzee-specific whereas two of them, involving human chromosomes 1 and 18, were fixed in the human lineage after the divergence of humans and chimpanzees. We have performed detailed molecular and computational characterization of the breakpoint regions of the human-specific inversion of chromosome 1. FISH analysis and sequence comparisons together revealed that the pericentromeric region of HSA 1 contains numerous segmental duplications that display a high degree of sequence similarity between both chromosomal arms. Detailed analysis of these regions has allowed us to refine the p-arm breakpoint region to a 154.2 kb interval at 1p11.2 and the q-arm breakpoint region to a 562.6 kb interval at 1q21.1. Both breakpoint regions contain human-specific segmental duplications arranged in inverted orientation. We therefore propose that the pericentric inversion of HSA 1 was mediated by intra-chromosomal non-homologous recombination between these highly homologous segmental duplications that had themselves arisen only recently in the human lineage by duplicative transposition.
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- Justyna M Szamalek
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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Bailey JA, Eichler EE. Primate segmental duplications: crucibles of evolution, diversity and disease. Nat Rev Genet 2006; 7:552-64. [PMID: 16770338 DOI: 10.1038/nrg1895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 441] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Compared with other mammals, the genomes of humans and other primates show an enrichment of large, interspersed segmental duplications (SDs) with high levels of sequence identity. Recent evidence has begun to shed light on the origin of primate SDs, pointing to a complex interplay of mechanisms and indicating that distinct waves of duplication took place during primate evolution. There is also evidence for a strong association between duplication, genomic instability and large-scale chromosomal rearrangements. Exciting new findings suggest that SDs have not only created novel primate gene families, but might have also influenced current human genic and phenotypic variation on a previously unappreciated scale. A growing number of examples link natural human genetic variation of these regions to susceptibility to common disease.
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- Jeffrey A Bailey
- Department of Pathology, Case Western University School of Medicine and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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Dupanloup I, Kaessmann H. Evolutionary simulations to detect functional lineage-specific genes. Bioinformatics 2006; 22:1815-22. [PMID: 16766551 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btl280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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MOTIVATION Supporting the functionality of recent duplicate gene copies is usually difficult, owing to high sequence similarity between duplicate counterparts and shallow phylogenies, which hamper both the statistical and experimental inference. RESULTS We developed an integrated evolutionary approach to identify functional duplicate gene copies and other lineage-specific genes. By repeatedly simulating neutral evolution, our method estimates the probability that an ORF was selectively conserved and is therefore likely to represent a bona fide coding region. In parallel, our method tests whether the accumulation of non-synonymous substitutions reveals signatures of selective constraint. We show that our approach has high power to identify functional lineage-specific genes using simulated and real data. For example, a coding region of average length (approximately 1400 bp), restricted to hominoids, can be predicted to be functional in approximately 94-100% of cases. Notably, the method may support functionality for instances where classical selection tests based on the ratio of non-synonymous to synonymous substitutions fail to reveal signatures of selection. Our method is available as an automated tool, ReEVOLVER, which will also be useful to systematically detect functional lineage-specific genes of closely related species on a large scale. AVAILABILITY ReEVOLVER is available at http://www.unil.ch/cig/page7858.html.
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- Isabelle Dupanloup
- Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Perry GH, Tchinda J, McGrath SD, Zhang J, Picker SR, Cáceres AM, Iafrate AJ, Tyler-Smith C, Scherer SW, Eichler EE, Stone AC, Lee C. Hotspots for copy number variation in chimpanzees and humans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 103:8006-11. [PMID: 16702545 PMCID: PMC1472420 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0602318103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 191] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Copy number variation is surprisingly common among humans and can be involved in phenotypic diversity and variable susceptibility to complex diseases, but little is known of the extent of copy number variation in nonhuman primates. We have used two array-based comparative genomic hybridization platforms to identify a total of 355 copy number variants (CNVs) in the genomes of 20 wild-born chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and have compared the identified chimpanzee CNVs to known human CNVs from previous studies. Many CNVs were observed in the corresponding regions in both chimpanzees and humans; especially those CNVs of higher frequency. Strikingly, these loci are enriched 20-fold for ancestral segmental duplications, which may facilitate CNV formation through nonallelic homologous recombination mechanisms. Therefore, some of these regions may be unstable "hotspots" for the genesis of copy number variation, with recurrent duplications and deletions occurring across and within species.
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- George H. Perry
- *School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287
- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine and the
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- The Centre for Applied Genomics, Department of Genetics and Genomic Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1X8
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115
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- *School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287
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- Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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- **The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA, United Kingdom; and
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- The Centre for Applied Genomics, Department of Genetics and Genomic Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1X8
- Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 1A8
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine and the
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Seattle, WA 98195
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- *School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
- To whom correspondence should be addressed at:
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 20 Shattuck Street, Thorn Building, Room 6-12A, Boston, MA 02115. E-mail:
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Hamilton AT, Huntley S, Tran-Gyamfi M, Baggott DM, Gordon L, Stubbs L. Evolutionary expansion and divergence in the ZNF91 subfamily of primate-specific zinc finger genes. Genome Res 2006; 16:584-94. [PMID: 16606703 PMCID: PMC1457049 DOI: 10.1101/gr.4843906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Most genes are conserved in mammals, but certain gene families have acquired large numbers of lineage-specific loci through repeated rounds of gene duplication, divergence, and loss that have continued in each mammalian group. One such family encodes KRAB-zinc finger (KRAB-ZNF) proteins, which function as transcriptional repressors. One particular subfamily of KRAB-ZNF genes, including ZNF91, has expanded specifically in primates to comprise more than 110 loci in the human genome. Genes of the ZNF91 subfamily reside in large gene clusters near centromeric regions of human chromosomes 19 and 7 with smaller clusters or isolated copies in other locations. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that many of these genes arose before the split between the New and Old World monkeys, but the ZNF91 subfamily has continued to expand and diversify throughout the evolution of apes and humans. Paralogous loci are distinguished by divergence within their zinc finger arrays, indicating selection for proteins with different regulatory targets. In addition, many loci produce multiple alternatively spliced transcripts encoding proteins that may serve separate and perhaps even opposing regulatory roles because of the modular motif structure of KRAB-ZNF genes. The tissue-specific expression patterns and rapid structural divergence of ZNF91 subfamily genes suggest a role in determining gene expression differences between species and the evolution of novel primate traits.
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- Aaron T. Hamilton
- Genome Biology Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Genome Biology Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Genome Biology Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Genome Biology Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Genome Biology Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Genome Biology Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
- Corresponding author.E-mail ; fax (925) 422-2099
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Morgante M. Plant genome organisation and diversity: the year of the junk! Curr Opin Biotechnol 2006; 17:168-73. [PMID: 16530402 DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2006.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2006] [Revised: 02/28/2006] [Accepted: 03/02/2006] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Having gained a thorough understanding of the structure and organization of model plant genomes, such as those of Arabidopsis thaliana and rice, we have now started to investigate the most interesting aspect of genome structure - its variations. Variation in DNA sequence is responsible for the genetic component of phenotypic variation (i.e. the component upon which both natural and artificial selection act). Recent studies have started to shed light on sequence variation outside of the genic regions, owing mainly to large insertion/deletion (indel) polymorphisms caused by the presence or absence of transposable elements of different classes. In addition to long terminal repeat retrotransposons, DNA transposons have been shown to be responsible for these polymorphisms. These comprise Helitrons, CACTA and Mu-like elements that are capable of acquiring and piecing together fragments of plant genes and are often expressed. Future analyses of the functional roles of intergenic sequence variation will tell us if we will need to pay more attention not only to genes, but also to the 'junk' DNA surrounding them.
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- Michele Morgante
- Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie ed Ambientali, Universita' di Udine, Via delle Scienze 208, I-33100 Udine, Italy.
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Varki A, Altheide TK. Comparing the human and chimpanzee genomes: searching for needles in a haystack. Genome Res 2006; 15:1746-58. [PMID: 16339373 DOI: 10.1101/gr.3737405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 179] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The chimpanzee genome sequence is a long-awaited milestone, providing opportunities to explore primate evolution and genetic contributions to human physiology and disease. Humans and chimpanzees shared a common ancestor approximately 5-7 million years ago (Mya). The difference between the two genomes is actually not approximately 1%, but approximately 4%--comprising approximately 35 million single nucleotide differences and approximately 90 Mb of insertions and deletions. The challenge is to identify the many evolutionarily, physiologically, and biomedically important differences scattered throughout these genomes while integrating these data with emerging knowledge about the corresponding "phenomes" and the relevant environmental influences. It is logical to tackle the genetic aspects via both genome-wide analyses and candidate gene studies. Genome-wide surveys could eliminate the majority of genomic sequence differences from consideration, while simultaneously identifying potential targets of opportunity. Meanwhile, candidate gene approaches can be based on such genomic surveys, on genes that may contribute to known differences in phenotypes or disease incidence/severity, or on mutations in the human population that impact unique aspects of the human condition. These two approaches will intersect at many levels and should be considered complementary. We also cite some known genetic differences between humans and great apes, realizing that these likely represent only the tip of the iceberg.
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- Ajit Varki
- Glycobiology Research and Training Center, Departments of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA.
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Wilson GM, Flibotte S, Missirlis PI, Marra MA, Jones S, Thornton K, Clark AG, Holt RA. Identification by full-coverage array CGH of human DNA copy number increases relative to chimpanzee and gorilla. Genes Dev 2006; 16:173-81. [PMID: 16365383 PMCID: PMC1361712 DOI: 10.1101/gr.4456006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2005] [Accepted: 11/09/2005] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Duplication of chromosomal segments and associated genes is thought to be a primary mechanism for generating evolutionary novelty. By comparative genome hybridization using a full-coverage (tiling) human BAC array with 79-kb resolution, we have identified 63 chromosomal segments, ranging in size from 0.65 to 1.3 Mb, that have inferred copy number increases in human relative to chimpanzee. These segments span 192 Ensembl genes, including 82 gene duplicates (41 reciprocal best BLAST matches). Synonymous and nonsynonymous substitution rates across these pairs provide evidence for general conservation of the amino acid sequence, consistent with the maintenance of function of both copies, and one case of putative positive selection for an uncharacterized gene. Surprisingly, the core histone genes H2A, H2B, H3, and H4 have been duplicated in the human lineage since our split with chimpanzee. The observation of increased copy number of a human cluster of core histone genes suggests that altered dosage, even of highly constrained genes, may be an important evolutionary mechanism.
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- Gary M Wilson
- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada V5Z 4S6
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Macdonald SJ, Long AD. Fine scale structural variants distinguish the genomes of Drosophila melanogaster and D. pseudoobscura. Genome Biol 2006; 7:R67. [PMID: 16872532 PMCID: PMC1779558 DOI: 10.1186/gb-2006-7-7-r67] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2006] [Revised: 04/30/2006] [Accepted: 07/27/2006] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND A primary objective of comparative genomics is to identify genomic elements of functional significance that contribute to phenotypic diversity. Complex changes in genome structure (insertions, duplications, rearrangements, translocations) may be widespread, and have important effects on organismal diversity. Any survey of genomic variation is incomplete without an assessment of structural changes. RESULTS We re-examine the genome sequences of the diverged species Drosophila melanogaster and D. pseudoobscura to identify fine-scale structural features that distinguish the genomes. We detect 95 large insertion/deletion events that occur within the introns of orthologous gene pairs, the majority of which represent insertion of transposable elements. We also identify 143 microinversions below 5 kb in size. These microinversions reside within introns or just upstream or downstream of genes, and invert conserved DNA sequence. The sequence conservation within microinversions suggests they may be enriched for functional genetic elements, and their position with respect to known genes implicates them in the regulation of gene expression. Although we found a distinct pattern of GC content across microinversions, this was indistinguishable from the pattern observed across blocks of conserved non-coding sequence. CONCLUSION Drosophila has long been known as a genus harboring a variety of large inversions that disrupt chromosome colinearity. Here we demonstrate that microinversions, many of which are below 1 kb in length, located in/near genes may also be an important source of genetic variation in Drosophila. Further examination of other Drosophila genome sequences will likely identify an array of novel microinversion events.
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Affiliation(s)
- Stuart J Macdonald
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697-2525, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697-2525, USA
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