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Marks J. Hominoid cytogenetics and evolution. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2012. [DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330260507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Bradley BJ. Reconstructing phylogenies and phenotypes: a molecular view of human evolution. J Anat 2008; 212:337-53. [PMID: 18380860 PMCID: PMC2409108 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2007.00840.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/07/2007] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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This review broadly summarizes how molecular biology has contributed to our understanding of human evolution. Molecular anthropology began in the 1960s with immunological comparisons indicating that African apes and humans were closely related and, indeed, shared a common ancestor as recently as 5 million years ago. Although initially dismissed, this finding has proven robust and numerous lines of molecular evidence now firmly place the human-ape divergence at 4-8 Ma. Resolving the trichotomy among humans, chimpanzees and gorillas took a few more decades. Despite the readily apparent physical similarities shared by African apes to the exclusion of modern humans (body hair, knuckle-walking, thin tooth enamel), the molecular support for a human-chimpanzee clade is now overwhelming. More recently, whole genome sequencing and gene mapping have shifted the focus of molecular anthropology from phylogenetic analyses to phenotypic reconstruction and functional genomics. We are starting to identify the genetic basis of the morphological, physiological and behavioural traits that distinguish modern humans from apes and apes from other primates. Most notably, recent comparative genomic analyses strongly indicate that the marked differences between modern humans and chimpanzees are likely due more to changes in gene regulation than to modifications of the genes themselves, an idea first proposed over 30 years ago. Almost weekly, press releases describe newly identified genes and regulatory elements that seem to have undergone strong positive selection along the human lineage. Loci involved in speech (e.g. FOXP2), brain development (e.g. ASPM), and skull musculature (e.g. MYH16) have been of particular interest, but some surprising candidate loci (e.g. those involved in auditory capabilities) have emerged as well. Exciting new research avenues, such as the Neanderthal Genome Project, promise that molecular analyses will continue to provide novel insights about our evolution. Ultimately, however, these molecular findings can only be understood in light of data from field sites, morphology labs, and museum collections. Indeed, molecular anthropology depends on these sources for calibrating molecular clocks and placing genetic data within the context of key morphological and ecological transitions in human evolution.
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- Brenda J Bradley
- Department of Zoology and Christ's College, University of Cambridge, UK.
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Wienberg J. Fluorescence in situ hybridization to chromosomes as a tool to understand human and primate genome evolution. Cytogenet Genome Res 2004; 108:139-60. [PMID: 15545725 DOI: 10.1159/000080811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2004] [Accepted: 05/12/2004] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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For the last 15 years molecular cytogenetic techniques have been extensively used to study primate evolution. Molecular probes were helpful to distinguish mammalian chromosomes and chromosome segments on the basis of their DNA content rather than solely on morphological features such as banding patterns. Various landmark rearrangements have been identified for most of the nodes in primate phylogeny while chromosome banding still provides helpful reference maps. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) techniques were used with probes of different complexity including chromosome painting probes, probes derived from chromosome sub-regions and in the size of a single gene. Since more recently, in silico techniques have been applied to trace down evolutionarily derived chromosome rearrangements by searching the human and mouse genome sequence databases. More detailed breakpoint analyses of chromosome rearrangements that occurred during higher primate evolution also gave some insights into the molecular changes in chromosome rearrangements that occurred in evolution. Hardly any "fusion genes" as known from chromosome rearrangements in cancer cells or dramatic "position effects" of genes transferred to new sites in primate genomes have been reported yet. Most breakpoint regions have been identified within gene poor areas rich in repetitive elements and/or low copy repeats (segmental duplications). The progress in various molecular and molecular-cytogenetic approaches including the recently launched chimpanzee genome project suggests that these new tools will have a significant impact on the further understanding of human genome evolution.
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- J Wienberg
- Institute of Human Genetics, GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health, Department Biology II, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.
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Malassé AD, Deshayes MJ, Marchand D, Magniez-Jannin F, Chaline J. A solution to the human paradox: fundamental ontogenies and heterochronies. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1999. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02438932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Deinard AS, Sirugo G, Kidd KK. Hominid phylogeny: inferences from a sub-terminal minisatellite analyzed by repeat expansion detection (RED). J Hum Evol 1998; 35:321-325. [PMID: 9782100 DOI: 10.1006/jhev.1998.0245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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- AS Deinard
- Departments of Anthropology and Genetics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, U.S.A
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Müller S, Koehler U, Weinberg J, Marzella R, Finelli P, Antonacci R, Rocchi M, Archidiacono N. Comparative fluorescence in situ hybridization mapping of primate chromosomes with Alu polymerase chain reaction generated probes from human/rodent somatic cell hybrids. Chromosome Res 1996; 4:38-42. [PMID: 8653267 DOI: 10.1007/bf02254943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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We have used Alu polymerase chain reaction generated probes from rearranged human/rodent somatic cell hybrids for fluorescence in situ hybridization and comparative mapping of some intrachromosomal changes in the karyotypes of great apes (Pan troglodytes, P. paniscus, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus), a gibbon (Hylobates lar), and an Old World monkey (Macaca fuscata). Probes containing chromosomes 2 and 18 fragments confirmed inversions already suggested by the banding pattern of great ape homologues. However, a chromosome 3 fragment showed complex rearrangements in the gibbon and macaque karyotype which were previously not well defined from banding. 'Subchromosomal painting' will allow the identification of intrachromosomal changes on the basis of DNA homology and provides a powerful method to study karyological and genomic evolution.
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- S Müller
- Institut für Anthropologie und Humangenetik, Universität München, Germany
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Marks J. Blood will tell (won't it?): a century of molecular discourse in anthropological systematics. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 1994; 94:59-79. [PMID: 8042706 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330940106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Being derived from the hereditary material, molecular genetic data are often assumed to be a source of sounder inferences about evolution than data from other kinds of investigations. This, however, tends to be taken in the absence of a clear knowledge of the evolutionary processes at work, the technical shortcomings, and the manner of deriving the specific conclusions. The history of biological anthropology shows that, from the beginning of the 20th century, grossly naive conclusions have been promoted simply on the basis that they are derived from genetics, without having been fully thought-out. A balanced consideration of the shortcomings as well as the advantages of genetic data are necessary for its proper integration into the advantages of genetic data are necessary for its proper integration into the field. When molecular and morphological data disagree, both must be re-examined carefully, for genetics has been used irresponsibly as a form of scientific validation, both in American society and in American science. Contemporary data bearing on the molecular relationships of the apes are note-worthy for their diversity in quality, and need to be evaluated in the light of molecular and microevolutionary theory.
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- J Marks
- Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511
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Marks J. Hominoid heterochromatin: terminal C-bands as a complex genetic trait linking chimpanzee and gorilla. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 1993; 90:237-46. [PMID: 8430756 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330900210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The genetic relations of the apes have been the source of contention throughout the last decade. A potentially useful suite of phylogenetic characters is the distribution of darkly staining material (heterochromatin) in the chromosomes of the apes. While the precise etiology of this character suite remains unclear, it appears to be fairly easily reconciled to hominoid phylogeny in general. The distribution of heterochromatin at the tips of the chromosomes of gorillas and chimpanzees suggests a phylogenetic association between those two taxa exclusive of humans.
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- J Marks
- Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511
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Wienberg J, Stanyon R, Jauch A, Cremer T. Homologies in human and Macaca fuscata chromosomes revealed by in situ suppression hybridization with human chromosome specific DNA libraries. Chromosoma 1992; 101:265-70. [PMID: 1576879 DOI: 10.1007/bf00346004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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We established chromosomal homologies between all chromosomes of the human karyotype and that of an old world monkey (Macaca fuscata) by chromosomal in situ suppression (CISS) hybridization with human chromosome specific DNA libraries. Except for the human chromosome 2 library and limited cross-hybridization of X and Y chromosome libraries all human DNA libraries hybridized to single GTG-banded macaque chromosomes. Only three macaque chromosomes (2, 7, 13) were each hybridized by two separate human libraries (7 and 21, 14 and 15, 20 and 22 respectively). Thus, an unequivocally high degree of synteny between human and macaque chromosomes has been maintained for more than 20 million years. As previously suggested, both Papionini (macaques, baboons, mandrills and cercocebus monkeys, all of which have nearly identical karyotypes) and humans are chromosomally conservative. The results suggest, that CISS hybridization can be expected to become an indispensable tool in comparative chromosome and gene mapping and will help clarify chromosomal phylogenies with speed and accuracy.
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- J Wienberg
- Institut für Humangenetik und Anthropologie, Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany
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Comparative chromosome band mapping in primates byin situ suppression hybridization of band specific DNA microlibraries. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1991. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02435608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Wienberg J, Jauch A, Stanyon R, Cremer T. Molecular cytotaxonomy of primates by chromosomal in situ suppression hybridization. Genomics 1990; 8:347-50. [PMID: 2249853 DOI: 10.1016/0888-7543(90)90292-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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A new strategy for analyzing chromosomal evolution in primates is presented using chromosomal in situ suppression (CISS) hybridization. Biotin-labeled DNA libraries from flow-sorted human chromosomes are hybridized to chromosome preparations of catarrhines, platyrrhines, and prosimians. By this approach rearrangements of chromosomes that occurred during hominoid evolution are visualized directly at the level of DNA sequences, even in primate species with pronounced chromosomal shuffles.
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- J Wienberg
- Institut für Anthropologie und Humangenetik, Universität München, Federal Republic of Germany
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Wienberg J, Stanyon R. DA/DAPI fluorescent bands in the chromosomes ofPan paniscus. Am J Primatol 1988; 14:91-96. [DOI: 10.1002/ajp.1350140109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/1986] [Revised: 06/01/1987] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Chromosomes of thecercopithecus aethiops species group:C. aethiops (Linnaeus, 1758),C. cynosurus (Scopoli, 1786),C. pygerythrus (Cuvier, 1821), andC. sabaeus (Linnaeus, 1766). INT J PRIMATOL 1986. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02736662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Stanyon R, Chiarelli B, Gottlieb K, Patton WH. The phylogenetic and taxonomic status ofPan paniscus: A chromosomal perspective. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 1986. [DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330690408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Man shares uniquely few morphological features with either the chimpanzee or the gorilla, whereas there are many features that suggest affinities between man and the orang-utan, to whom the fossil Sivapithecus appears to be closely related. If these are unique features, inclusion of Sivapithecus, man and the orang-utan in a single clade, distinct from that containing the African apes, is justified but contrary to current opinion.
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Karyotypic fissioning theory has been put forward by a number of researchers as a possible driving force of mammalian evolution. Most recently, Giusto and Margulis (BioSystems, 13 (1981) 267-302) hypothesized that karyotypic fissioning best explains the evolution of Old World monkeys, apes, and humans. According to their hypothesis, hominoid karyotypes were derived from the monkey chromosome complement by just such a fissioning event. That hypothesis is tested here by comparing the G-banded chromosomes of humans and great apes with eight species of Old World monkeys. Five submetacentric chromosomes between apes and monkeys have identical banding patterns and nine chromosomes share the same pericentric inversion. Such extensive karyological similarities are not in accordance with, or predicted by karyotypic fissioning. Apparently, karyotypic fissioning is an extremely uneconomical model of chromosomal evolution. The strong conservation of banding patterns sometimes involving the retention of identical chromosomes indicates that ancient linkages of genes have probably been maintained through many speciation events.
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