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Sánchez-Martínez LJ, Hernández CL, Rodríguez JN, Dugoujon JM, Novelletto A, Ropero P, Pereira L, Calderón R. Genetic variation patterns of β-thalassemia in Western Andalusia (Spain) reveal a structure of specific mutations within the Iberian Peninsula. Ann Hum Biol 2021; 48:406-417. [PMID: 34727790 DOI: 10.1080/03014460.2021.2000641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Analyses of the genomic variation in the western Mediterranean population are being used to reveal its evolutionary history and to understand the molecular basis of particular diseases. AIM To observe the β-thalassemia mutational spectrum in western Andalusia, Spain, in the context of the Mediterranean. In addition, associations between disease and neutral gene variants within the β-globin gene (HBB) were also evaluated. SUBJECTS AND METHODS This study included 63 unrelated individuals diagnosed with β-thalassemia. In addition, 97 unrelated, healthy subjects of the same territory were also analysed as proxies of the normal genetic background. Allele associations and population genetic structure analyses were performed using different methodologies. RESULTS Data have revealed a rather restricted spectrum of β-thalassemia mutations in the analysed sample. Although the detected variants fit well with the Mediterranean pattern, certain singularities support a structure of some specific β-thalassemia alleles. The IVSI-1 (G > A) shows a strong regionalisation. The spatial correlogram revealed a typically narrow wave structure, presumably linked to genetic isolation and genetic drift. CONCLUSIONS The long history of endemic malaria in the study territory, the rather high consanguinity rates among its autochthonous population, and other demographic features have been used here to understand the western Andalusian β-thalassemia molecular portrait.
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- Luis J Sánchez-Martínez
- Departamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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- Servicio de Hematología y Hemoterapia, Hospital Juan Ramón Jiménez, Huelva, Spain
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- CNRS UMR 5288 Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et d'Imagerie de Synthèse (AMIS), Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, Toulouse, France
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- Servicio de Hematología y Hemoterapia, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
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- i3S, Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Departamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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Boualam MA, Pradines B, Drancourt M, Barbieri R. Malaria in Europe: A Historical Perspective. Front Med (Lausanne) 2021; 8:691095. [PMID: 34277665 PMCID: PMC8277918 DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2021.691095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2021] [Accepted: 05/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Endemic malaria, which claimed 229 million new cases and 409,000 deaths in 2019 mainly in Africa, was eradicated from Europe by the mid-20th century. Historical descriptions of intermittent tertian and quartan fever reported in texts of Hippocrates in Greece and Celsus in Italy suggest malaria. A few paleomicrobiology investigations have confirmed the presence of malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum in 1st, 2nd, and 5th century infected individuals in diverse regions of Italy, and Plasmodium sp. later in Bavaria. The causative Plasmodium pathogens, discovered in the 19th century in Algeria, were controversially used as therapeutic agents in the European pharmacopeia more than two centuries after effective quinine-based treatments had been introduced in Europe. How Europe managed to eradicate malaria and what the history of malaria was in Europe are of medical interest, and this review traces research pathways for a renewed understanding of malaria eradication in Europe through combined historical and paleomicrobiological investigations.
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- Mahmoud A. Boualam
- IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
- Aix-Marseille University, IRD, MEPHI, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
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- IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
- Unité parasitologie et entomologie, Département microbiologie et maladies infectieuses, Institut de recherche biomédicale des armées, Marseille, France
- Aix-Marseille University, IRD, SSA, AP-HM, VITROME, Marseille, France
- Centre national de référence du paludisme, Marseille, France
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- IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
- Aix-Marseille University, IRD, MEPHI, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
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- IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
- Aix-Marseille University, IRD, MEPHI, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
- Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EFS, ADES, Marseille, France
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Marcus JH, Posth C, Ringbauer H, Lai L, Skeates R, Sidore C, Beckett J, Furtwängler A, Olivieri A, Chiang CWK, Al-Asadi H, Dey K, Joseph TA, Liu CC, Der Sarkissian C, Radzevičiūtė R, Michel M, Gradoli MG, Marongiu P, Rubino S, Mazzarello V, Rovina D, La Fragola A, Serra RM, Bandiera P, Bianucci R, Pompianu E, Murgia C, Guirguis M, Orquin RP, Tuross N, van Dommelen P, Haak W, Reich D, Schlessinger D, Cucca F, Krause J, Novembre J. Genetic history from the Middle Neolithic to present on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia. Nat Commun 2020; 11:939. [PMID: 32094358 PMCID: PMC7039977 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14523-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2019] [Accepted: 01/08/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
The island of Sardinia has been of particular interest to geneticists for decades. The current model for Sardinia's genetic history describes the island as harboring a founder population that was established largely from the Neolithic peoples of southern Europe and remained isolated from later Bronze Age expansions on the mainland. To evaluate this model, we generate genome-wide ancient DNA data for 70 individuals from 21 Sardinian archaeological sites spanning the Middle Neolithic through the Medieval period. The earliest individuals show a strong affinity to western Mediterranean Neolithic populations, followed by an extended period of genetic continuity on the island through the Nuragic period (second millennium BCE). Beginning with individuals from Phoenician/Punic sites (first millennium BCE), we observe spatially-varying signals of admixture with sources principally from the eastern and northern Mediterranean. Overall, our analysis sheds light on the genetic history of Sardinia, revealing how relationships to mainland populations shifted over time.
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MESH Headings
- Archaeology/methods
- Body Remains
- Chromosomes, Human, X/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Y/genetics
- DNA, Ancient
- DNA, Mitochondrial/genetics
- Datasets as Topic
- Female
- Genetics, Population/history
- History, 15th Century
- History, 16th Century
- History, 17th Century
- History, 18th Century
- History, 19th Century
- History, 20th Century
- History, 21st Century
- History, Ancient
- History, Medieval
- Human Migration
- Humans
- Italy
- Male
- Models, Genetic
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
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- Joseph H Marcus
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
- Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA
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- Department of Archaeology, Durham University, Durham, UK
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica - CNR, Cagliari, Italy
- Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
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- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie "L. Spallanzani", Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Quantitative and Computational Biology Section, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et d'Imagerie de Synthèse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université de Toulouse 3, Toulouse, France
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
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- Soprintendenza Archeologia, belle arti e paesaggio delle province di Sassari e Nuoro, Sassari, Italy
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- Departamento de Geografía, Historia y Humanidades Escuela Internacional de Doctorado de la Universidad de Almería, Almería, Spain
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
- Center for Anthropological, Paleopathological and Historical Studies of the Sardinian and Mediterranean Populations, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
- Center for Anthropological, Paleopathological and Historical Studies of the Sardinian and Mediterranean Populations, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
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- Department of Sciences and Technological Innovation, University of Eastern Piedmont, 15121, Alessandria, Italy
- Legal Medicine Section, Department of Public Health and Paediatric Sciences, University of Turin, 10126, Turin, Italy
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- Department of History, Human Sciences and Education, University of Sassari, 07100, Sassari, Italy
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- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament de Biologia Animal, Biologia Vegetal i Ecologia, 08193, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of History, Human Sciences and Education, University of Sassari, 07100, Sassari, Italy
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- Department of History, Human Sciences and Education, University of Sassari, 07100, Sassari, Italy
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- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
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- Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean, Munich, Germany
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica - CNR, Cagliari, Italy.
- Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy.
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.
- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
- Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean, Munich, Germany.
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
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