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Harris KD, Greenbaum G. DORA: an interactive map for the visualization and analysis of ancient human DNA and associated data. Nucleic Acids Res 2024; 52:W54-W60. [PMID: 38742634 PMCID: PMC11223807 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkae373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2024] [Revised: 04/17/2024] [Accepted: 04/25/2024] [Indexed: 05/16/2024] Open
Abstract
The ability to sequence ancient genomes has revolutionized the way we study evolutionary history by providing access to the most important aspect of evolution-time. Until recently, studying human demography, ecology, biology, and history using population genomic inference relied on contemporary genomic datasets. Over the past decade, the availability of human ancient DNA (aDNA) has increased rapidly, almost doubling every year, opening the way for spatiotemporal studies of ancient human populations. However, the multidimensionality of aDNA, with genotypes having temporal, spatial and genomic coordinates, and integrating multiple sources of data, poses a challenge for developing meta-analyses pipelines. To address this challenge, we developed a publicly-available interactive tool, DORA, which integrates multiple data types, genomic and non-genomic, in a unified interface. This web-based tool enables browsing sample metadata alongside additional layers of information, such as population structure, climatic data, and unpublished samples. Users can perform analyses on genotypes of these samples, or export sample subsets for external analyses. DORA integrates analyses and visualizations in a single intuitive interface, resolving the technical issues of combining datasets from different sources and formats, and allowing researchers to focus on the scientific questions that can be addressed through analysis of aDNA datasets.
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- Keith D Harris
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, 9190401 Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, 9190401 Jerusalem, Israel
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Peyrégne S, Slon V, Kelso J. More than a decade of genetic research on the Denisovans. Nat Rev Genet 2024; 25:83-103. [PMID: 37723347 DOI: 10.1038/s41576-023-00643-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/19/2023] [Indexed: 09/20/2023]
Abstract
Denisovans, a group of now extinct humans who lived in Eastern Eurasia in the Middle and Late Pleistocene, were first identified from DNA sequences just over a decade ago. Only ten fragmentary remains from two sites have been attributed to Denisovans based entirely on molecular information. Nevertheless, there has been great interest in using genetic data to understand Denisovans and their place in human history. From the reconstruction of a single high-quality genome, it has been possible to infer their population history, including events of admixture with other human groups. Additionally, the identification of Denisovan DNA in the genomes of present-day individuals has provided insights into the timing and routes of dispersal of ancient modern humans into Asia and Oceania, as well as the contributions of archaic DNA to the physiology of present-day people. In this Review, we synthesize more than a decade of research on Denisovans, reconcile controversies and summarize insights into their population history and phenotype. We also highlight how our growing knowledge about Denisovans has provided insights into our own evolutionary history.
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- Stéphane Peyrégne
- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
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- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
- Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- The Dan David Center for Human Evolution and Biohistory Research, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
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Uricoechea Patiño D, Collins A, García OJR, Santos Vecino G, Cuenca JVR, Bernal JE, Benavides Benítez E, Vergara Muñoz S, Briceño Balcázar I. High Mitochondrial Haplotype Diversity Found in Three Pre-Hispanic Groups from Colombia. Genes (Basel) 2023; 14:1853. [PMID: 37895202 PMCID: PMC10606881 DOI: 10.3390/genes14101853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2023] [Revised: 08/30/2023] [Accepted: 09/18/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023] Open
Abstract
The analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) hypervariable region (HVR) sequence data from ancient human remains provides valuable insights into the genetic structure and population dynamics of ancient populations. mtDNA is particularly useful in studying ancient populations, because it is maternally inherited and has a higher mutation rate compared to nuclear DNA. To determine the genetic structure of three Colombian pre-Hispanic populations and compare them with current populations, we determined the haplotypes from human bone remains by sequencing several mitochondrial DNA segments. A wide variety of mitochondrial polymorphisms were obtained from 33 samples. Our results support a high population heterogeneity among pre-Hispanic populations in Colombia.
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- Daniel Uricoechea Patiño
- Doctoral Program in Biosciences, Human Genetics Group, Faculty of Medicine, University of La Sabana, Chía 250001, Colombia;
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- Human Genetics & Genomic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK;
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- Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Human Science, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín 050010, Colombia;
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Sinú, Cartagena de Indias 130011, Colombia; (J.E.B.); (E.B.B.); (S.V.M.)
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Sinú, Cartagena de Indias 130011, Colombia; (J.E.B.); (E.B.B.); (S.V.M.)
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Sinú, Cartagena de Indias 130011, Colombia; (J.E.B.); (E.B.B.); (S.V.M.)
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- Doctoral Program in Biosciences, Human Genetics Group, Faculty of Medicine, University of La Sabana, Chía 250001, Colombia;
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Hu W, Hao Z, Du P, Di Vincenzo F, Manzi G, Cui J, Fu YX, Pan YH, Li H. Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the Early to Middle Pleistocene transition. Science 2023; 381:979-984. [PMID: 37651513 DOI: 10.1126/science.abq7487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2022] [Accepted: 07/11/2023] [Indexed: 09/02/2023]
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Population size history is essential for studying human evolution. However, ancient population size history during the Pleistocene is notoriously difficult to unravel. In this study, we developed a fast infinitesimal time coalescent process (FitCoal) to circumvent this difficulty and calculated the composite likelihood for present-day human genomic sequences of 3154 individuals. Results showed that human ancestors went through a severe population bottleneck with about 1280 breeding individuals between around 930,000 and 813,000 years ago. The bottleneck lasted for about 117,000 years and brought human ancestors close to extinction. This bottleneck is congruent with a substantial chronological gap in the available African and Eurasian fossil record. Our results provide new insights into our ancestry and suggest a coincident speciation event.
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- Wangjie Hu
- CAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
- Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- College of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data for Medical Sciences, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
- College of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data for Medical Sciences, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, China
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- Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
- Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bioresources, Yunnan University, Kunming, China
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- Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
- Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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Shi Y, Niu Y, Zhang P, Luo H, Liu S, Zhang S, Wang J, Li Y, Liu X, Song T, Xu T, He S. Characterization of genome-wide STR variation in 6487 human genomes. Nat Commun 2023; 14:2092. [PMID: 37045857 PMCID: PMC10097659 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37690-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2022] [Accepted: 03/27/2023] [Indexed: 04/14/2023] Open
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Short tandem repeats (STRs) are abundant and highly mutagenic in the human genome. Many STR loci have been associated with a range of human genetic disorders. However, most population-scale studies on STR variation in humans have focused on European ancestry cohorts or are limited by sequencing depth. Here, we depicted a comprehensive map of 366,013 polymorphic STRs (pSTRs) constructed from 6487 deeply sequenced genomes, comprising 3983 Chinese samples (~31.5x, NyuWa) and 2504 samples from the 1000 Genomes Project (~33.3x, 1KGP). We found that STR mutations were affected by motif length, chromosome context and epigenetic features. We identified 3273 and 1117 pSTRs whose repeat numbers were associated with gene expression and 3'UTR alternative polyadenylation, respectively. We also implemented population analysis, investigated population differentiated signatures, and genotyped 60 known disease-causing STRs. Overall, this study further extends the scale of STR variation in humans and propels our understanding of the semantics of STRs.
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- Yirong Shi
- Key Laboratory of RNA Biology, Center for Big Data Research in Health, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of RNA Biology, Center for Big Data Research in Health, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of RNA Biology, Center for Big Data Research in Health, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
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- Key Laboratory of RNA Biology, Center for Big Data Research in Health, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
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- Key Laboratory of RNA Biology, Center for Big Data Research in Health, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of RNA Biology, Center for Big Data Research in Health, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of RNA Biology, Center for Big Data Research in Health, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
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- Key Laboratory of RNA Biology, Center for Big Data Research in Health, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
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- Key Laboratory of RNA Biology, Center for Big Data Research in Health, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of RNA Biology, Center for Big Data Research in Health, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
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- National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China.
- Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, 250117, Shandong, China.
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- Key Laboratory of RNA Biology, Center for Big Data Research in Health, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China.
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
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Nikita E, Alexander M, Cox S, Radini A, Le Roux P, Chaouali M, Fenwick C. Isotopic evidence for human mobility in late antique Bulla Regia (Tunisia). JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE, REPORTS 2023; 47:103816. [PMID: 36998714 PMCID: PMC10041345 DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2022] [Revised: 12/12/2022] [Accepted: 12/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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This paper represents the first isotopic study on late antique human mobility in North Africa, using the urban site of Bulla Regia in Tunisia as a case study. We also present the first values for bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr in northern Tunisia, analysing 63 plant and snail samples, as well as a simple method for the pre-processing of plants in the field to facilitate their export. Bulla Regia was a prominent Roman and late antique town situated on an important axis of transport and communication in North Africa and is therefore an ideal site to explore mobility in the region during this time period. Strontium (87Sr/86Sr) and oxygen (δ18OCarb) isotopic analysis of 22 late antique individuals from a Christian church and cemetery identified at least seven or eight non-locals, while comparative analysis of five Roman individuals from a funerary enclosure on the same site classified all but one of them as potential locals. Most non-local individuals exhibit 87Sr/86Sr values that match various areas of northern Tunisia, which supports regional mobility rather than long-distance migration, although when combined with the oxygen results, inter-regional mobility from an area with a warmer climate may be hypothesised for some individuals. Examination of the spatial distribution of non-local individuals in their cemetery setting reveals that they were privileged individuals, thus they may reflect the mobility of wealthier town-dwellers in late antiquity, particularly perhaps along the Carthage-Hippo route.
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- Efthymia Nikita
- Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Centre, The Cyprus Institute, 2121 Nicosia, Cyprus
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- BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York, YO1 5DD York, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- Physical Anthropology Section, Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York, YO1 5DD York, UK
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- Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
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- Institute of Archaeology, University College London, WC1H 0PY London, UK
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Zhou T, Lu L, Li C. Optimization of the " in-silico" mate-pair method improves contiguity and accuracy of genome assembly. Ecol Evol 2023; 13:e9745. [PMID: 36644701 PMCID: PMC9833964 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2022] [Revised: 12/30/2022] [Accepted: 12/30/2022] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
Abstract
A combination of short-insert paired-ended and mate-pair libraries of large insert sizes is used as a standard method to generate genome assemblies with high contiguity. The third-generation sequencing techniques also are used to improve the quality of assembled genomes. However, both mate-pair libraries and the third-generation libraries require high-molecular-weight DNA, making the use of these libraries inappropriate for samples with only degraded DNA. An in silico method that generates mate-pair libraries using a reference genome was devised for the task of assembling target genomes. Although the contiguity and completeness of assembled genomes were significantly improved by this method, a high level of errors manifested in the assembly, further to which the methods for using reference genomes, was not optimized. Here, we tested different strategies for using reference genomes to generate in silico mate-pairs. The results showed that using a closely related reference genome from the same genus was more effective than using divergent references. Conservation of in silico mate-pairs by comparing two references and using those to guide genome assembly reduced the number of misassemblies (18.6%-46.1%) and increased the contiguity of assembled genomes (9.7%-70.7%), while maintaining gene completeness at a level that was either similar or marginally lower than that obtained via the current method. Finally, we developed a pipeline of the optimized in silico method and compared it with another reference-guided assembler, RagTag. We found that RagTag produced longer scaffolds (17.8 Mbp vs 3.0 Mbp), but resulted in a much higher misassembly rate (85.68%) than our optimized in silico mate-pair method. This optimized in silico pipeline developed in this study should facilitate further studies on genomics, population genetics, and conservation of endangered species.
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- Tao Zhou
- Shanghai Universities Key Laboratory of Marine Animal Taxonomy and EvolutionShanghai Ocean UniversityShanghaiChina
- Shanghai Collaborative Innovation for Aquatic Animal Genetics and BreedingShanghai Ocean UniversityShanghaiChina
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- Shanghai Universities Key Laboratory of Marine Animal Taxonomy and EvolutionShanghai Ocean UniversityShanghaiChina
- Shanghai Collaborative Innovation for Aquatic Animal Genetics and BreedingShanghai Ocean UniversityShanghaiChina
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- Shanghai Universities Key Laboratory of Marine Animal Taxonomy and EvolutionShanghai Ocean UniversityShanghaiChina
- Shanghai Collaborative Innovation for Aquatic Animal Genetics and BreedingShanghai Ocean UniversityShanghaiChina
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Souilmi Y, Tobler R, Johar A, Williams M, Grey ST, Schmidt J, Teixeira JC, Rohrlach A, Tuke J, Johnson O, Gower G, Turney C, Cox M, Cooper A, Huber CD. Admixture has obscured signals of historical hard sweeps in humans. Nat Ecol Evol 2022; 6:2003-2015. [PMID: 36316412 PMCID: PMC9715430 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01914-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2021] [Accepted: 09/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Abstract
The role of natural selection in shaping biological diversity is an area of intense interest in modern biology. To date, studies of positive selection have primarily relied on genomic datasets from contemporary populations, which are susceptible to confounding factors associated with complex and often unknown aspects of population history. In particular, admixture between diverged populations can distort or hide prior selection events in modern genomes, though this process is not explicitly accounted for in most selection studies despite its apparent ubiquity in humans and other species. Through analyses of ancient and modern human genomes, we show that previously reported Holocene-era admixture has masked more than 50 historic hard sweeps in modern European genomes. Our results imply that this canonical mode of selection has probably been underappreciated in the evolutionary history of humans and suggest that our current understanding of the tempo and mode of selection in natural populations may be inaccurate.
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- Yassine Souilmi
- Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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- Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
- Evolution of Cultural Diversity Initiative, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
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- Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
- Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
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- Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Transplantation Immunology Group, Immunology Division, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia
- St Vincent's Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia
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- Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Chronos 14Carbon-Cycle Facility and Earth and Sustainability Science Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- South Australian Museum, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
- BlueSky Genetics, Ashton, South Australia, Australia.
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- Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
- Department of Biology, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA.
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Bhat GR, Sethi I, Rah B, Kumar R, Afroze D. Innovative in Silico Approaches for Characterization of Genes and Proteins. Front Genet 2022; 13:865182. [PMID: 35664302 PMCID: PMC9159363 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.865182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2022] [Accepted: 04/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Bioinformatics is an amalgamation of biology, mathematics and computer science. It is a science which gathers the information from biology in terms of molecules and applies the informatic techniques to the gathered information for understanding and organizing the data in a useful manner. With the help of bioinformatics, the experimental data generated is stored in several databases available online like nucleotide database, protein databases, GENBANK and others. The data stored in these databases is used as reference for experimental evaluation and validation. Till now several online tools have been developed to analyze the genomic, transcriptomic, proteomics, epigenomics and metabolomics data. Some of them include Human Splicing Finder (HSF), Exonic Splicing Enhancer Mutation taster, and others. A number of SNPs are observed in the non-coding, intronic regions and play a role in the regulation of genes, which may or may not directly impose an effect on the protein expression. Many mutations are thought to influence the splicing mechanism by affecting the existing splice sites or creating a new sites. To predict the effect of mutation (SNP) on splicing mechanism/signal, HSF was developed. Thus, the tool is helpful in predicting the effect of mutations on splicing signals and can provide data even for better understanding of the intronic mutations that can be further validated experimentally. Additionally, rapid advancement in proteomics have steered researchers to organize the study of protein structure, function, relationships, and dynamics in space and time. Thus the effective integration of all of these technological interventions will eventually lead to steering up of next-generation systems biology, which will provide valuable biological insights in the field of research, diagnostic, therapeutic and development of personalized medicine.
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- Gh. Rasool Bhat
- Advanced Centre for Human Genetics, Sher-I- Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, India
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
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- Advanced Centre for Human Genetics, Sher-I- Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, India
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- School of Biotechnology, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, India
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- Advanced Centre for Human Genetics, Sher-I- Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, India
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Lynch R, Loehr J, Lummaa V, Honkola T, Pettay J, Vesakoski O. Socio-cultural similarity with host population rather than ecological similarity predicts success and failure of human migrations. Proc Biol Sci 2022; 289:20212298. [PMID: 35042412 PMCID: PMC8767215 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.2298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2021] [Accepted: 12/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
Abstract
Demographers argue that human migration patterns are shaped by people moving to better environments. More recently, however, evolutionary theorists have argued that people move to similar environments to which they are culturally adapted. While previous studies analysing which factors affect migration patterns have focused almost exclusively on successful migrations, here we take advantage of a natural experiment during World War II in which an entire population was forcibly displaced but were then allowed to return home to compare successful with unsuccessful migrations. We test two competing hypotheses: (1) individuals who relocate to environments that are superior to their place of origin will be more likely to remain-The Better Environment Hypothesis or (2) individuals who relocate to environments that are similar to their place of origin will be more likely to remain-The Similar Environment Hypothesis. Using detailed records recording the social, cultural, linguistic and ecological conditions of the origin and destination locations, we find that cultural similarity (e.g. linguistic similarity and marrying within one's own minority ethnic group)-rather than ecological differences-are the best predictors of successful migrations. These results suggest that social relationships, empowered by cultural similarity with the host population, play a critical role in successful migrations and provide limited support for the similar environment hypothesis. Overall, these results demonstrate the importance of comparing unsuccessful with successful migrations in efforts understand the engines of human dispersal and suggest that the primary obstacles to human migrations and successful range expansion are sociocultural rather than ecological.
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- R. Lynch
- Pennsylvania State University, Department of Anthropology, 410 Carpenter Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- University of Helsinki, Biological and Environmental Sciences, Viikinkaari 1 PO Box 65, Helsinki, Finland
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- University of Turku, Department of Biology, Vesilinnantie, 5, Turku 20014, Finland
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- University of Turku, Department of Biology, Vesilinnantie, 5, Turku 20014, Finland
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- University of Turku, Department of Biology, Vesilinnantie, 5, Turku 20014, Finland
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- University of Turku, Department of Biology, Vesilinnantie, 5, Turku 20014, Finland
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Willerslev E, Meltzer DJ. Peopling of the Americas as inferred from ancient genomics. Nature 2021; 594:356-364. [PMID: 34135521 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03499-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2020] [Accepted: 03/26/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
Abstract
In less than a decade, analyses of ancient genomes have transformed our understanding of the Indigenous peopling and population history of the Americas. These studies have shown that this history, which began in the late Pleistocene epoch and continued episodically into the Holocene epoch, was far more complex than previously thought. It is now evident that the initial dispersal involved the movement from northeast Asia of distinct and previously unknown populations, including some for whom there are no currently known descendants. The first peoples, once south of the continental ice sheets, spread widely, expanded rapidly and branched into multiple populations. Their descendants-over the next fifteen millennia-experienced varying degrees of isolation, admixture, continuity and replacement, and their genomes help to illuminate the relationships among major subgroups of Native American populations. Notably, all ancient individuals in the Americas, save for later-arriving Arctic peoples, are more closely related to contemporary Indigenous American individuals than to any other population elsewhere, which challenges the claim-which is based on anatomical evidence-that there was an early, non-Native American population in the Americas. Here we review the patterns revealed by ancient genomics that help to shed light on the past peoples who created the archaeological landscape, and together lead to deeper insights into the population and cultural history of the Americas.
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- Eske Willerslev
- GeoGenetics Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. .,Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. .,Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK.
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- Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. .,Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA.
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Reinscheid RK, Mafessoni F, Lüttjohann A, Jüngling K, Pape HC, Schulz S. Neandertal introgression and accumulation of hypomorphic mutations in the neuropeptide S (NPS) system promote attenuated functionality. Peptides 2021; 138:170506. [PMID: 33556445 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2021.170506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2020] [Revised: 01/14/2021] [Accepted: 02/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The neuropeptide S (NPS) system plays an important role in fear and fear memory processing but has also been associated with allergic and inflammatory diseases. Genes for NPS and its receptor NPSR1 are found in all tetrapods. Compared to non-human primates, several non-synonymous single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) occur in both human genes that collectively result in functional attenuation, suggesting adaptive mechanisms in a human context. To investigate historic and geographic origins of these hypomorphic mutations and explore genetic signs of selection, we analyzed ancient genomes and worldwide genotype frequencies of four prototypic SNPs in the NPS system. Neandertal and Denisovan genomes contain exclusively ancestral alleles for NPSR1 while all derived alleles occur in ancient genomes of anatomically modern humans, indicating that they arose in modern Homo sapiens. Worldwide genotype frequencies for three hypomorphic NPSR1 SNPs show significant regional homogeneity but follow a gradient towards increasing derived allele frequencies that supports an out-of-Africa scenario. Increased density of high-frequency polymorphisms around the three NPSR1 loci suggests weak or possibly balancing selection. A hypomorphic mutation in the NPS precursor, however, was detected at high frequency in Eurasian Neandertal genomes and shows genetic signatures indicating that it was introgressed into the human gene pool, particularly in Southern Europe, by interbreeding with Neandertals. We discuss potential evolutionary scenarios including behavior and immune-based natural selection.
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- Rainer K Reinscheid
- Institute of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany; Institute of Physiology I, Westfälische-Wilhelms-University, Münster, Germany.
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- Institute of Physiology I, Westfälische-Wilhelms-University, Münster, Germany
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- Institute of Physiology I, Westfälische-Wilhelms-University, Münster, Germany
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- Institute of Physiology I, Westfälische-Wilhelms-University, Münster, Germany
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- Institute of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany
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Hernández CL, Pita G, Cavadas B, López S, Sánchez-Martínez LJ, Dugoujon JM, Novelletto A, Cuesta P, Pereira L, Calderón R. Human Genomic Diversity Where the Mediterranean Joins the Atlantic. Mol Biol Evol 2021; 37:1041-1055. [PMID: 31816048 PMCID: PMC7086172 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msz288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Throughout the past few years, a lively debate emerged about the timing and magnitude of the human migrations between the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghreb. Several pieces of evidence, including archaeological, anthropological, historical, and genetic data, have pointed to a complex and intermingled evolutionary history in the western Mediterranean area. To study to what extent connections across the Strait of Gibraltar and surrounding areas have shaped the present-day genomic diversity of its populations, we have performed a screening of 2.5 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms in 142 samples from southern Spain, southern Portugal, and Morocco. We built comprehensive data sets of the studied area and we implemented multistep bioinformatic approaches to assess population structure, demographic histories, and admixture dynamics. Both local and global ancestry inference showed an internal substructure in the Iberian Peninsula, mainly linked to a differential African ancestry. Western Iberia, from southern Portugal to Galicia, constituted an independent cluster within Iberia characterized by an enriched African genomic input. Migration time modeling showed recent historic dates for the admixture events occurring both in Iberia and in the North of Africa. However, an integrative vision of both paleogenomic and modern DNA data allowed us to detect chronological transitions and population turnovers that could be the result of transcontinental migrations dating back from Neolithic times. The present contribution aimed to fill the gaps in the modern human genomic record of a key geographic area, where the Mediterranean and the Atlantic come together.
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- Candela L Hernández
- Departamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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- Human Genotyping Unit-CeGen, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
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- i3S, Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.,IPATIMUP-Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- UCL Cancer Institute, London, United Kingdom
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- Departamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 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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- Centro de Proceso de Datos, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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- i3S, Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.,IPATIMUP-Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular, 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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Xu W, Lin Y, Zhao K, Li H, Tian Y, Ngatia JN, Ma Y, Sahu SK, Guo H, Guo X, Xu YC, Liu H, Kristiansen K, Lan T, Zhou X. An efficient pipeline for ancient DNA mapping and recovery of endogenous ancient DNA from whole-genome sequencing data. Ecol Evol 2021; 11:390-401. [PMID: 33437437 PMCID: PMC7790629 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2020] [Revised: 10/10/2020] [Accepted: 10/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Ancient DNA research has developed rapidly over the past few decades due to improvements in PCR and next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies, but challenges still exist. One major challenge in relation to ancient DNA research is to recover genuine endogenous ancient DNA sequences from raw sequencing data. This is often difficult due to degradation of ancient DNA and high levels of contamination, especially homologous contamination that has extremely similar genetic background with that of the real ancient DNA. In this study, we collected whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data from 6 ancient samples to compare different mapping algorithms. To further explore more effective methods to separate endogenous DNA from homologous contaminations, we attempted to recover reads based on ancient DNA specific characteristics of deamination, depurination, and DNA fragmentation with different parameters. We propose a quick and improved pipeline for separating endogenous ancient DNA while simultaneously decreasing homologous contaminations to very low proportions. Our goal in this research was to develop useful recommendations for ancient DNA mapping and for separation of endogenous DNA to facilitate future studies of ancient DNA.
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- Wenhao Xu
- Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and PaleoanthropologyChinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
- College of InformaticsHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhanChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural GenomicsBGI‐ShenzhenShenzhenChina
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Genome Read and WriteBGI‐ShenzhenShenzhenChina
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- Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and PaleoanthropologyChinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
- CAS Center for Excellence in Life and PaleoenvironmentBeijingChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural GenomicsBGI‐ShenzhenShenzhenChina
- School of Future TechnologyUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural GenomicsBGI‐ShenzhenShenzhenChina
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- College of Wildlife ResourcesNortheast Forestry UniversityHarbinChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural GenomicsBGI‐ShenzhenShenzhenChina
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- Forest Inventory and Planning Institute of Jilin ProvinceChangchunChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural GenomicsBGI‐ShenzhenShenzhenChina
- Guangdong Provincial Academician Workstation of BGI Synthetic GenomicsBGI‐ShenzhenShenzhenChina
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- College of Wildlife ResourcesNortheast Forestry UniversityHarbinChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural GenomicsBGI‐ShenzhenShenzhenChina
- Department of BiologyLaboratory of Genomics and Molecular BiomedicineUniversity of CopenhagenCopenhagenDenmark
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural GenomicsBGI‐ShenzhenShenzhenChina
- Department of BiologyLaboratory of Genomics and Molecular BiomedicineUniversity of CopenhagenCopenhagenDenmark
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural GenomicsBGI‐ShenzhenShenzhenChina
- Department of BiologyLaboratory of Genomics and Molecular BiomedicineUniversity of CopenhagenCopenhagenDenmark
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- Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and PaleoanthropologyChinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
- CAS Center for Excellence in Life and PaleoenvironmentBeijingChina
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Deffner D, Kleinow V, McElreath R. Dynamic social learning in temporally and spatially variable environments. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2020; 7:200734. [PMID: 33489255 PMCID: PMC7813247 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.200734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2020] [Accepted: 11/09/2020] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Cultural evolution is partly driven by the strategies individuals use to learn behaviour from others. Previous experiments on strategic learning let groups of participants engage in repeated rounds of a learning task and analysed how choices are affected by individual payoffs and the choices of group members. While groups in such experiments are fixed, natural populations are dynamic, characterized by overlapping generations, frequent migrations and different levels of experience. We present a preregistered laboratory experiment with 237 mostly German participants including migration, differences in expertise and both spatial and temporal variation in optimal behaviour. We used simulation and multi-level computational learning models including time-varying parameters to investigate adaptive time dynamics in learning. Confirming theoretical predictions, individuals relied more on (conformist) social learning after spatial compared with temporal changes. After both types of change, they biased decisions towards more experienced group members. While rates of social learning rapidly declined in rounds following migration, individuals remained conformist to group-typical behaviour. These learning dynamics can be explained as adaptive responses to different informational environments. Summarizing, we provide empirical insights and introduce modelling tools that hopefully can be applied to dynamic social learning in other systems.
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- Dominik Deffner
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture, Leipzig, Germany
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Drake JL, Whitelegge JP, Jacobs DK. First sequencing of ancient coral skeletal proteins. Sci Rep 2020; 10:19407. [PMID: 33173075 PMCID: PMC7655939 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-75846-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2020] [Accepted: 10/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Here we report the first recovery, sequencing, and identification of fossil biomineral proteins from a Pleistocene fossil invertebrate, the stony coral Orbicella annularis. This fossil retains total hydrolysable amino acids of a roughly similar composition to extracts from modern O. annularis skeletons, with the amino acid data rich in Asx (Asp + Asn) and Glx (Glu + Gln) typical of invertebrate skeletal proteins. It also retains several proteins, including a highly acidic protein, also known from modern coral skeletal proteomes that we sequenced by LC-MS/MS over multiple trials in the best-preserved fossil coral specimen. A combination of degradation or amino acid racemization inhibition of trypsin digestion appears to limit greater recovery. Nevertheless, our workflow determines optimal samples for effective sequencing of fossil coral proteins, allowing comparison of modern and fossil invertebrate protein sequences, and will likely lead to further improvements of the methods. Sequencing of endogenous organic molecules in fossil invertebrate biominerals provides an ancient record of composition, potentially clarifying evolutionary changes and biotic responses to paleoenvironments.
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- Jeana L Drake
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
- Department of Marine Biology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
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Glebe D, Goldmann N, Lauber C, Seitz S. HBV evolution and genetic variability: Impact on prevention, treatment and development of antivirals. Antiviral Res 2020; 186:104973. [PMID: 33166575 DOI: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2020.104973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2020] [Revised: 10/31/2020] [Accepted: 11/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Hepatitis B virus (HBV) poses a major global health burden with 260 million people being chronically infected and 890,000 dying annually from complications in the course of the infection. HBV is a small enveloped virus with a reverse-transcribed DNA genome that infects hepatocytes and can cause acute and chronic infections of the liver. HBV is endemic in humans and apes representing the prototype member of the viral family Hepadnaviridae and can be divided into 10 genotypes. Hepadnaviruses have been found in all vertebrate classes and constitute an ancient viral family that descended from non-enveloped progenitors more than 360 million years ago. The de novo emergence of the envelope protein gene was accompanied with the liver-tropism and resulted in a tight virus-host association. The oldest HBV genomes so far have been isolated from human remains of the Bronze Age and the Neolithic (~7000 years before present). Despite the remarkable stability of the hepadnaviral genome over geological eras, HBV is able to rapidly evolve within an infected individual under pressure of the immune response or during antiviral treatment. Treatment with currently available antivirals blocking intracellular replication of HBV allows controlling of high viremia and improving liver health during long-term therapy of patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB), but they are not sufficient to cure the disease. New therapy options that cover all HBV genotypes and emerging viral variants will have to be developed soon. In addition to the antiviral treatment of chronically infected patients, continued efforts to expand the global coverage of the currently available HBV vaccine will be one of the key factors for controlling the rising global spread of HBV. Certain improvements of the vaccine (e.g. inclusion of PreS domains) could counteract known problems such as low or no responsiveness of certain risk groups and waning anti-HBs titers leading to occult infections, especially with HBV genotypes E or F. But even with an optimal vaccine and a cure for hepatitis B, global eradication of HBV would be difficult to achieve because of an existing viral reservoir in primates and bats carrying closely related hepadnaviruses with zoonotic potential.
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- Dieter Glebe
- Institute of Medical Virology, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, National Reference Centre for Hepatitis B Viruses and Hepatitis D Viruses, Schubertstr. 81, 35392, Giessen, Germany; German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Sites Giessen, Heidelberg, Hannover, Germany.
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- Institute of Medical Virology, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, National Reference Centre for Hepatitis B Viruses and Hepatitis D Viruses, Schubertstr. 81, 35392, Giessen, Germany
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- Division of Virus-Associated Carcinogenesis, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany; Research Group Computational Virology, Institute for Experimental Virology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, A Joint Venture Between the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and the Hannover Medical School, Cluster of Excellence RESIST, Hannover Medical School, 30625, Hannover, Germany; German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Sites Giessen, Heidelberg, Hannover, Germany
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- Division of Virus-Associated Carcinogenesis, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany; Department of Infectious Diseases, Molecular Virology, University of Heidelberg, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany; German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Sites Giessen, Heidelberg, Hannover, Germany.
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Martiniano R, Garrison E, Jones ER, Manica A, Durbin R. Removing reference bias and improving indel calling in ancient DNA data analysis by mapping to a sequence variation graph. Genome Biol 2020; 21:250. [PMID: 32943086 PMCID: PMC7499850 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-020-02160-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2019] [Accepted: 08/27/2020] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND During the last decade, the analysis of ancient DNA (aDNA) sequence has become a powerful tool for the study of past human populations. However, the degraded nature of aDNA means that aDNA molecules are short and frequently mutated by post-mortem chemical modifications. These features decrease read mapping accuracy and increase reference bias, in which reads containing non-reference alleles are less likely to be mapped than those containing reference alleles. Alternative approaches have been developed to replace the linear reference with a variation graph which includes known alternative variants at each genetic locus. Here, we evaluate the use of variation graph software vg to avoid reference bias for aDNA and compare with existing methods. RESULTS We use vg to align simulated and real aDNA samples to a variation graph containing 1000 Genome Project variants and compare with the same data aligned with bwa to the human linear reference genome. Using vg leads to a balanced allelic representation at polymorphic sites, effectively removing reference bias, and more sensitive variant detection in comparison with bwa, especially for insertions and deletions (indels). Alternative approaches that use relaxed bwa parameter settings or filter bwa alignments can also reduce bias but can have lower sensitivity than vg, particularly for indels. CONCLUSIONS Our findings demonstrate that aligning aDNA sequences to variation graphs effectively mitigates the impact of reference bias when analyzing aDNA, while retaining mapping sensitivity and allowing detection of variation, in particular indel variation, that was previously missed.
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- Rui Martiniano
- Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0DH UK
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- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, CB10 1SA UK
- Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ UK
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ UK
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- Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0DH UK
- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, CB10 1SA UK
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Wagner JK, Colwell C, Claw KG, Stone AC, Bolnick DA, Hawks J, Brothers KB, Garrison NA. Fostering Responsible Research on Ancient DNA. Am J Hum Genet 2020; 107:183-195. [PMID: 32763189 PMCID: PMC7413888 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2020.06.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Anticipating and addressing the social implications of scientific work is a fundamental responsibility of all scientists. However, expectations for ethically sound practices can evolve over time as the implications of science come to be better understood. Contemporary researchers who work with ancient human remains, including those who conduct ancient DNA research, face precisely this challenge as it becomes clear that practices such as community engagement are needed to address the important social implications of this work. To foster and promote ethical engagement between researchers and communities, we offer five practical recommendations for ancient DNA researchers: (1) formally consult with communities; (2) address cultural and ethical considerations; (3) engage communities and support capacity building; (4) develop plans to report results and manage data; and (5) develop plans for long-term responsibility and stewardship. Ultimately, every member of a research team has an important role in fostering ethical research on ancient DNA.
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- Jennifer K Wagner
- Professional Practice and Social Implications Committee (formerly the Social Issues Committee), American Society of Human Genetics, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA; Responsible Ancient DNA Research Working Group, American Society of Human Genetics, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA; Center for Translational Bioethics and Health Care Policy, Geisinger, Danville, PA 17822, USA.
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- Responsible Ancient DNA Research Working Group, American Society of Human Genetics, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA; Department of Anthropology, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO 80205, USA
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- Responsible Ancient DNA Research Working Group, American Society of Human Genetics, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA; Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Responsible Ancient DNA Research Working Group, American Society of Human Genetics, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA; School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
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- Responsible Ancient DNA Research Working Group, American Society of Human Genetics, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA; Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA; Institute for Systems Genomics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
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- Responsible Ancient DNA Research Working Group, American Society of Human Genetics, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA; Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Professional Practice and Social Implications Committee (formerly the Social Issues Committee), American Society of Human Genetics, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA; Responsible Ancient DNA Research Working Group, American Society of Human Genetics, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA; Department of Pediatrics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, USA
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- Professional Practice and Social Implications Committee (formerly the Social Issues Committee), American Society of Human Genetics, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA; Responsible Ancient DNA Research Working Group, American Society of Human Genetics, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA; Institute for Society and Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; Institute for Precision Health, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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Integration of ancient DNA with transdisciplinary dataset finds strong support for Inca resettlement in the south Peruvian coast. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:18359-18368. [PMID: 32661160 PMCID: PMC7414190 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2005965117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Genomic, archaeological, historical, and biogeochemical data are integrated to examine six individuals from two cemeteries in the Chincha Valley of southern Peru. Results demonstrate consistency among these independent datasets in support of a model of north Peruvian coast peoples moving to the Chincha Valley during the Late Horizon (1400 to 1532 CE). Our transdisciplinary work provides strong support for Inca resettlement, a state policy that reshaped the Andean sociopolitical landscape yet represents one of the most notoriously difficult phenomena to identify in the archaeological record. This research offers an ideal case study that sets a methodological standard for investigating ancient mobility in complex societies by synthesizing aDNA with multiple independent lines of evidence. Ancient DNA (aDNA) analysis provides a powerful means of investigating human migration, social organization, and a plethora of other crucial questions about humanity’s past. Recently, specialists have suggested that the ideal research design involving aDNA would include multiple independent lines of evidence. In this paper, we adopt a transdisciplinary approach integrating aDNA with archaeological, biogeochemical, and historical data to investigate six individuals found in two cemeteries that date to the Late Horizon (1400 to 1532 CE) and Colonial (1532 to 1825 CE) periods in the Chincha Valley of southern Peru. Genomic analyses indicate that these individuals are genetically most similar to ancient and present-day populations from the north Peruvian coast located several hundred kilometers away. These genomic data are consistent with 16th century written records as well as ceramic, textile, and isotopic data. These results provide some of the strongest evidence yet of state-sponsored resettlement in the pre-Colonial Andes. This study highlights the power of transdisciplinary research designs when using aDNA data and sets a methodological standard for investigating ancient mobility in complex societies.
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Pereira R, Oliveira J, Sousa M. Bioinformatics and Computational Tools for Next-Generation Sequencing Analysis in Clinical Genetics. J Clin Med 2020; 9:E132. [PMID: 31947757 PMCID: PMC7019349 DOI: 10.3390/jcm9010132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2019] [Revised: 12/15/2019] [Accepted: 12/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Clinical genetics has an important role in the healthcare system to provide a definitive diagnosis for many rare syndromes. It also can have an influence over genetics prevention, disease prognosis and assisting the selection of the best options of care/treatment for patients. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has transformed clinical genetics making possible to analyze hundreds of genes at an unprecedented speed and at a lower price when comparing to conventional Sanger sequencing. Despite the growing literature concerning NGS in a clinical setting, this review aims to fill the gap that exists among (bio)informaticians, molecular geneticists and clinicians, by presenting a general overview of the NGS technology and workflow. First, we will review the current NGS platforms, focusing on the two main platforms Illumina and Ion Torrent, and discussing the major strong points and weaknesses intrinsic to each platform. Next, the NGS analytical bioinformatic pipelines are dissected, giving some emphasis to the algorithms commonly used to generate process data and to analyze sequence variants. Finally, the main challenges around NGS bioinformatics are placed in perspective for future developments. Even with the huge achievements made in NGS technology and bioinformatics, further improvements in bioinformatic algorithms are still required to deal with complex and genetically heterogeneous disorders.
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- Rute Pereira
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Department of Microscopy, Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar (ICBAS), University of Porto (UP), 4050-313 Porto, Portugal;
- Biology and Genetics of Reproduction Unit, Multidisciplinary Unit for Biomedical Research (UMIB), ICBAS-UP, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal;
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- Biology and Genetics of Reproduction Unit, Multidisciplinary Unit for Biomedical Research (UMIB), ICBAS-UP, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal;
- UnIGENe and CGPP–Centre for Predictive and Preventive Genetics-Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMC), i3S-Institute for Research and Innovation in Health-UP, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Department of Microscopy, Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar (ICBAS), University of Porto (UP), 4050-313 Porto, Portugal;
- Biology and Genetics of Reproduction Unit, Multidisciplinary Unit for Biomedical Research (UMIB), ICBAS-UP, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal;
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Samper Carro SC, Gilbert F, Bulbeck D, O'Connor S, Louys J, Spooner N, Questiaux D, Arnold L, Price GJ, Wood R, Mahirta. Somewhere beyond the sea: Human cranial remains from the Lesser Sunda Islands (Alor Island, Indonesia) provide insights on Late Pleistocene peopling of Island Southeast Asia. J Hum Evol 2019; 134:102638. [PMID: 31446971 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2018] [Revised: 07/05/2019] [Accepted: 07/06/2019] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The migration of anatomically modern humans (AMH) from Africa to every inhabitable continent included their dispersal through Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) to Australia. Significantly, this involved overwater dispersal through the Lesser Sunda Islands between Sunda (continental Southeast Asia) and Sahul (Australia and New Guinea). However, the timing and direction of this movement is still debated. Here, we report on human skeletal material recovered from excavations at two rockshelters, known locally as Tron Bon Lei, on Alor Island, Indonesia. The remains, dated to the Late Pleistocene, are the first anatomically modern human remains recovered in Wallacea dated to this period and are associated with cultural material demonstrating intentional burial. The human remains from Tron Bon Lei represent a population osteometrically distinct from Late Pleistocene Sunda and Sahul AMH. Instead, morphometrically, they appear more similar to Holocene populations in the Lesser Sundas. Thus, they may represent the remains of a population originally from Sunda whose Lesser Sunda Island descendants survived into the Holocene.
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- Sofía C Samper Carro
- Archaeology and Natural History, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, Australia; School of Archaeology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, Australia; Centre d'Estudis del Patrimoni Arqueològic de la Prehistòria, Facultat de Lletres-Edifici B, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain.
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- School of Archaeology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, Australia
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- Archaeology and Natural History, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, Australia
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- Archaeology and Natural History, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, Australia; ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, Australia
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- Australian Research Centre of Human Evolution (ARCHE), Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, 4111, Australia
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- Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing & School of Physical Sciences, University of Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia; Defence Science and Technology Group, PO Box 1500, Edinburgh, SA, 5111, UK
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- Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing & School of Physical Sciences, University of Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia
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- Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing & School of Physical Sciences, University of Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia
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- Earth Chemistry, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, Australia
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- Jurusan Arkeologi, Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, Universitas Gadja Madja, Bulaksumur, Yogjakarta, 55281, Indonesia
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Adams RH, Schield DR, Castoe TA. Recent Advances in the Inference of Gene Flow from Population Genomic Data. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s40610-019-00120-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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A comprehensive overview of common polymorphic variants that cause missense mutations in human CYPs and UGTs. Biomed Pharmacother 2019; 111:983-992. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2019.01.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2018] [Revised: 01/06/2019] [Accepted: 01/06/2019] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Furtwängler A, Reiter E, Neumann GU, Siebke I, Steuri N, Hafner A, Lösch S, Anthes N, Schuenemann VJ, Krause J. Ratio of mitochondrial to nuclear DNA affects contamination estimates in ancient DNA analysis. Sci Rep 2018; 8:14075. [PMID: 30232341 PMCID: PMC6145933 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-32083-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2018] [Accepted: 08/29/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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In the last decade, ancient DNA research has grown rapidly and started to overcome several of its earlier limitations through Next-Generation-Sequencing (NGS). Among other advances, NGS allows direct estimation of sample contamination from modern DNA sources. First NGS-based approaches of estimating contamination measured heterozygosity. These measurements, however, could only be performed on haploid genomic regions, i.e. the mitochondrial genome or male X chromosomes, but provided no measures of contamination in the nuclear genome of females with their two X chromosomes. Instead, female nuclear contamination is routinely extrapolated from mitochondrial contamination estimates, but it remains unclear if this extrapolation is reliable and to what degree variation in mitochondrial to nuclear DNA ratios affects this extrapolation. We therefore analyzed ancient DNA from 317 samples of different skeletal elements from multiple sites, spanning a temporal range from 7,000 BP to 386 AD. We found that the mitochondrial to nuclear DNA (mt/nc) ratio negatively correlates with an increase in endogenous DNA content and strongly influenced mitochondrial and nuclear contamination estimates in males. The ratio of mt to nc contamination estimates remained stable for overall mt/nc ratios below 200, as found particularly often in petrous bones but less in other skeletal elements and became more variable above that ratio.
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- Anja Furtwängler
- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
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- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Physical Anthropology, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Archaeological Sciences and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Archaeological Sciences and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Physical Anthropology, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Animal Evolutionary Ecology group University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.,Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. .,Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. .,Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.
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Eisenmann S, Bánffy E, van Dommelen P, Hofmann KP, Maran J, Lazaridis I, Mittnik A, McCormick M, Krause J, Reich D, Stockhammer PW. Reconciling material cultures in archaeology with genetic data: The nomenclature of clusters emerging from archaeogenomic analysis. Sci Rep 2018; 8:13003. [PMID: 30158639 PMCID: PMC6115390 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-31123-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2018] [Accepted: 08/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Genome-wide ancient DNA analysis of skeletons retrieved from archaeological excavations has provided a powerful new tool for the investigation of past populations and migrations. An important objective for the coming years is to properly integrate ancient genomics into archaeological research. This article aims to contribute to developing a better understanding and cooperation between the two disciplines and beyond. It focuses on the question of how best to name clusters encountered when analysing the genetic makeup of past human populations. Recent studies have frequently borrowed archaeological cultural designations to name these genetic groups, while neglecting the historically problematic nature of the concept of cultures in archaeology. After reviewing current practices in naming genetic clusters, we introduce three possible nomenclature systems ('numeric system', 'mixed system (a)', 'geographic-temporal system') along with their advantages and challenges.
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- Stefanie Eisenmann
- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Department of Archaeogenetics, Jena, 07745, Germany.
- Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM), Jena, Germany & Cambridge, MA, USA.
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- Römisch-Germanische Kommission, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Frankfurt, a. M., 60325, Germany
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- Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, USA
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- Römisch-Germanische Kommission, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Frankfurt, a. M., 60325, Germany
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- Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Vorderasiatische Archäologie, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 69117, Germany
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- Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM), Jena, Germany & Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Department of Archaeogenetics, Jena, 07745, Germany
- Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM), Jena, Germany & Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM), Jena, Germany & Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of History, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
- Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Department of Archaeogenetics, Jena, 07745, Germany
- Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM), Jena, Germany & Cambridge, MA, USA
- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, 72074, Germany
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- Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM), Jena, Germany & Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
- Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MD, 20815, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Department of Archaeogenetics, Jena, 07745, Germany.
- Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM), Jena, Germany & Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Institut für Vor- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie und Provinzialrömische Archäologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, 80799, Germany.
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He G, Wang Z, Wang M, Luo T, Liu J, Zhou Y, Gao B, Hou Y. Forensic ancestry analysis in two Chinese minority populations using massively parallel sequencing of 165 ancestry-informative SNPs. Electrophoresis 2018; 39:2732-2742. [PMID: 29869338 DOI: 10.1002/elps.201800019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2018] [Revised: 04/28/2018] [Accepted: 05/21/2018] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Ancestry inference based on SNPs with marked allele frequency differences in diverse populations (called ancestry-informative SNP (AISNP)) is rapidly developed with the technology advancements of massively parallel sequencing. Despite the decade of exploration and broad public interest in the peopling of East-Asians, the genetic landscape of Chinese Silk Road populations based on the AISNPs is still little known. In this work, 206 unrelated individuals from Chinese Uyghur and Hui populations were firstly genotyped by 165 AISNPs (The Precision ID Ancestry Panel) using the Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine system. The ethnic origin of two investigated populations and population structures and genetic relationships were subsequently investigated. The 165 AISNPs panel not only can differentiate Uyghur and Hui populations but also has potential applications in individual identification. Comprehensive population comparisons and admixture estimates demonstrated a predominantly higher European-related ancestry (36.30%) in Uyghurs than Huis (3.66%). Overall, the Precision ID Ancestry Panel can provide good resolution at the intercontinental level, but has limitations on the genetic homogeneous populations, such as the Hui and Han. Additional population-specific AISNPs remain necessary to get better-scale resolution within geographically proximate populations in East Asia.
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- Guanglin He
- Institute of Forensic Medicine, West China School of Basic Medical Sciences & Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, P. R. China
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- Institute of Forensic Medicine, West China School of Basic Medical Sciences & Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, P. R. China
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- Institute of Forensic Medicine, West China School of Basic Medical Sciences & Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, P. R. China
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- Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, West China School of Basic Medical Sciences & Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, P. R. China
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- Institute of Forensic Medicine, West China School of Basic Medical Sciences & Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, P. R. China
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- Kumul Public Security Bureau, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, P. R. China
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- Yili Public Security Bureau, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, P. R. China
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- Institute of Forensic Medicine, West China School of Basic Medical Sciences & Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, P. R. China
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Schuenemann VJ, Avanzi C, Krause-Kyora B, Seitz A, Herbig A, Inskip S, Bonazzi M, Reiter E, Urban C, Dangvard Pedersen D, Taylor GM, Singh P, Stewart GR, Velemínský P, Likovsky J, Marcsik A, Molnár E, Pálfi G, Mariotti V, Riga A, Belcastro MG, Boldsen JL, Nebel A, Mays S, Donoghue HD, Zakrzewski S, Benjak A, Nieselt K, Cole ST, Krause J. Ancient genomes reveal a high diversity of Mycobacterium leprae in medieval Europe. PLoS Pathog 2018; 14:e1006997. [PMID: 29746563 PMCID: PMC5944922 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2017] [Accepted: 03/28/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Studying ancient DNA allows us to retrace the evolutionary history of human pathogens, such as Mycobacterium leprae, the main causative agent of leprosy. Leprosy is one of the oldest recorded and most stigmatizing diseases in human history. The disease was prevalent in Europe until the 16th century and is still endemic in many countries with over 200,000 new cases reported annually. Previous worldwide studies on modern and European medieval M. leprae genomes revealed that they cluster into several distinct branches of which two were present in medieval Northwestern Europe. In this study, we analyzed 10 new medieval M. leprae genomes including the so far oldest M. leprae genome from one of the earliest known cases of leprosy in the United Kingdom-a skeleton from the Great Chesterford cemetery with a calibrated age of 415-545 C.E. This dataset provides a genetic time transect of M. leprae diversity in Europe over the past 1500 years. We find M. leprae strains from four distinct branches to be present in the Early Medieval Period, and strains from three different branches were detected within a single cemetery from the High Medieval Period. Altogether these findings suggest a higher genetic diversity of M. leprae strains in medieval Europe at various time points than previously assumed. The resulting more complex picture of the past phylogeography of leprosy in Europe impacts current phylogeographical models of M. leprae dissemination. It suggests alternative models for the past spread of leprosy such as a wide spread prevalence of strains from different branches in Eurasia already in Antiquity or maybe even an origin in Western Eurasia. Furthermore, these results highlight how studying ancient M. leprae strains improves understanding the history of leprosy worldwide.
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- Verena J. Schuenemann
- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Global Health Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
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- Center for Bioinformatics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
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- McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Unit of Anthropology (ADBOU), Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense S, Denmark
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- Department of Microbial Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
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- Global Health Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology Centre, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, India
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- Department of Microbial Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Anthropology, National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Archaeology of Landscape and Archaeobiology, Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Bologna, Italy
- ADES AMU-CNRS- EFS: Anthropology and Health, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France
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- Department of Biology, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Bologna, Italy
- ADES AMU-CNRS- EFS: Anthropology and Health, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France
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- Unit of Anthropology (ADBOU), Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense S, Denmark
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- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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- Historic England, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Clinical Microbiology, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Global Health Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Center for Bioinformatics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- * E-mail: (KN); (STC); (JK)
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- Global Health Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
- * E-mail: (KN); (STC); (JK)
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- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
- * E-mail: (KN); (STC); (JK)
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Soraggi S, Wiuf C, Albrechtsen A. Powerful Inference with the D-Statistic on Low-Coverage Whole-Genome Data. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2018; 8:551-566. [PMID: 29196497 PMCID: PMC5919751 DOI: 10.1534/g3.117.300192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2017] [Accepted: 11/27/2017] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The detection of ancient gene flow between human populations is an important issue in population genetics. A common tool for detecting ancient admixture events is the D-statistic. The D-statistic is based on the hypothesis of a genetic relationship that involves four populations, whose correctness is assessed by evaluating specific coincidences of alleles between the groups. When working with high-throughput sequencing data, calling genotypes accurately is not always possible; therefore, the D-statistic currently samples a single base from the reads of one individual per population. This implies ignoring much of the information in the data, an issue especially striking in the case of ancient genomes. We provide a significant improvement to overcome the problems of the D-statistic by considering all reads from multiple individuals in each population. We also apply type-specific error correction to combat the problems of sequencing errors, and show a way to correct for introgression from an external population that is not part of the supposed genetic relationship, and how this leads to an estimate of the admixture rate. We prove that the D-statistic is approximated by a standard normal distribution. Furthermore, we show that our method outperforms the traditional D-statistic in detecting admixtures. The power gain is most pronounced for low and medium sequencing depth (1-10×), and performances are as good as with perfectly called genotypes at a sequencing depth of 2×. We show the reliability of error correction in scenarios with simulated errors and ancient data, and correct for introgression in known scenarios to estimate the admixture rates.
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- Samuele Soraggi
- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, 2100, Denmark
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, 2100, Denmark
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- Center for Bioinformatics, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, 2100, Denmark
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Inferring genetic origins and phenotypic traits of George Bähr, the architect of the Dresden Frauenkirche. Sci Rep 2018; 8:2115. [PMID: 29391530 PMCID: PMC5794802 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-20180-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2017] [Accepted: 01/11/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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For historic individuals, the outward appearance and other phenotypic characteristics remain often non-resolved. Unfortunately, images or detailed written sources are only scarcely available in many cases. Attempts to study historic individuals with genetic data so far focused on hypervariable regions of mitochondrial DNA and to some extent on complete mitochondrial genomes. To elucidate the potential of in-solution based genome-wide SNP capture methods - as now widely applied in population genetics - we extracted DNA from the 17th century remains of George Bähr, the architect of the Dresdner Frauenkirche. We were able to identify the remains to be of male origin, showing sufficient DNA damage, deriving from a single person and being thus likely authentic. Furthermore, we were able to show that George Bähr had light skin pigmentation and most likely brown eyes. His genomic DNA furthermore points to a Central European origin. We see this analysis as an example to demonstrate the prospects that new in-solution SNP capture methods can provide for historic cases of forensic interest, using methods well established in ancient DNA (aDNA) research and population genetics.
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Bae CJ, Douka K, Petraglia MD. On the origin of modern humans: Asian perspectives. Science 2017; 358:358/6368/eaai9067. [DOI: 10.1126/science.aai9067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 208] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Bae CJ, Douka K, Petraglia MD. Human Colonization of Asia in the Late Pleistocene. CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY 2017. [DOI: 10.1086/694420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Thiopurines have a narrow therapeutic range because of frequent toxicity (i.e. marrow suppression), which is only partly explained by TPMT genetic polymorphisms, especially within Asian populations. Recent studies have identified NUDT15 variation as another important factor affecting thiopurine metabolism. In this study, a total of four NUDT15 coding variants (p.Arg139Cys, p.Arg139His, p.Val18Ile, and p.Val18_Val19insGlyVal) were genotyped in 920 Korean individuals using direct sequencing of NUDT15 for the first time in a Korean population. The allele frequencies were 86.7% for NUDT15*1, and 4.4, 6.9, 0.4, 1.1, and 0.50% for *2, *3, *4, *5, and *6, respectively. The NUDT15 phenotypes based on diplotypes included normal activity (n=692), intermediate activity (n=209), and low activity (n=19), occurring in 75.2, 22.7, and 2.1% of the population, respectively. This study was the first to report NUDT15 variants other than NUDT15*3 in the Korean population and more individuals who were categorized as having intermediate or low NUDT15 activity in our study than in previously reported studies in the Korean population (24.8 vs. 19.4%, P<0.05). This study is useful for future clinical studies on thiopurine pharmacogenetics and dosage adjustment in the Korean population.
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Warinner C, Herbig A, Mann A, Fellows Yates JA, Weiß CL, Burbano HA, Orlando L, Krause J. A Robust Framework for Microbial Archaeology. Annu Rev Genomics Hum Genet 2017; 18:321-356. [PMID: 28460196 PMCID: PMC5581243 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genom-091416-035526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Microbial archaeology is flourishing in the era of high-throughput sequencing, revealing the agents behind devastating historical plagues, identifying the cryptic movements of pathogens in prehistory, and reconstructing the ancestral microbiota of humans. Here, we introduce the fundamental concepts and theoretical framework of the discipline, then discuss applied methodologies for pathogen identification and microbiome characterization from archaeological samples. We give special attention to the process of identifying, validating, and authenticating ancient microbes using high-throughput DNA sequencing data. Finally, we outline standards and precautions to guide future research in the field.
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- Christina Warinner
- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena 07745, Germany;
- Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena 07745, Germany;
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena 07745, Germany;
- Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena 07745, Germany;
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- Research Group for Ancient Genomics and Evolution, Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen 72076, Germany
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- Research Group for Ancient Genomics and Evolution, Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen 72076, Germany
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark
- Laboratoire d'Anthropobiologie Moléculaire et d'Imagerie de Synthèse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Toulouse 31000, France
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena 07745, Germany;
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Dutta R, Mainsah J, Yatskiv Y, Chakrabortty S, Brennan P, Khuder B, Qiu S, Fedorova L, Fedorov A. Intricacies in arrangement of SNP haplotypes suggest "Great Admixture" that created modern humans. BMC Genomics 2017; 18:433. [PMID: 28583085 PMCID: PMC5741169 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-017-3776-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2016] [Accepted: 05/09/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Inferring history from genomic sequences is challenging and problematic because chromosomes are mosaics of thousands of small Identicalby-descent (IBD) fragments, each of them having their own unique story. However, the main events in recent evolution might be deciphered from comparative analysis of numerous loci. A paradox of why humans, whose effective population size is only 104, have nearly three million frequent SNPs is formulated and examined. Results We studied 5398 loci evenly covering all human autosomes. Common haplotypes built from frequent SNPs that are present in people from various populations have been examined. We demonstrated highly non-random arrangement of alleles in common haplotypes. Abundance of mutually exclusive pairs of common haplotypes that have different alleles at every polymorphic position (so-called Yin/Yang haplotypes) was found in 56% of loci. A novel widely spread category of common haplotypes named Mosaic has been described. Mosaic consists of numerous pieces of Yin/Yang haplotypes and represents an ancestral stage of one of them. Scenarios of possible appearance of large number of frequent human SNPs and their habitual arrangement in Yin/Yang common haplotypes have been evaluated with an advanced genomic simulation algorithm. Conclusions Computer modeling demonstrated that the observed arrangement of 2.9 million frequent SNPs could not originate from a sole stand-alone population. A “Great Admixture” event has been proposed that can explain peculiarities with frequent SNP distributions. This Great Admixture presumably occurred 100–300 thousand years ago between two ancestral populations that had been separated from each other about a million years ago. Our programs and algorithms can be applied to other species to perform evolutionary and comparative genomics. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12864-017-3776-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Rajib Dutta
- Program in Biomedical Sciences, University of Toledo, Health Science Campus, Toledo, 43614, OH, USA.,Department of Medicine, University of Toledo, Health Science Campus, Toledo, 43614, OH, USA
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- Program in Bioinformatics and Proteomics/Genomics, University of Toledo, Health Science Campus, Toledo, 43614, OH, USA
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- Program in Bioinformatics and Proteomics/Genomics, University of Toledo, Health Science Campus, Toledo, 43614, OH, USA
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- Program in Bioinformatics and Proteomics/Genomics, University of Toledo, Health Science Campus, Toledo, 43614, OH, USA
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- Program in Bioinformatics and Proteomics/Genomics, University of Toledo, Health Science Campus, Toledo, 43614, OH, USA
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- Program in Bioinformatics and Proteomics/Genomics, University of Toledo, Health Science Campus, Toledo, 43614, OH, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Toledo, Health Science Campus, Toledo, 43614, OH, USA
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- Program in Bioinformatics and Proteomics/Genomics, University of Toledo, Health Science Campus, Toledo, 43614, OH, USA. .,Department of Medicine, University of Toledo, Health Science Campus, Toledo, 43614, OH, USA.
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Schuenemann VJ, Peltzer A, Welte B, van Pelt WP, Molak M, Wang CC, Furtwängler A, Urban C, Reiter E, Nieselt K, Teßmann B, Francken M, Harvati K, Haak W, Schiffels S, Krause J. Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in post-Roman periods. Nat Commun 2017; 8:15694. [PMID: 28556824 PMCID: PMC5459999 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2016] [Accepted: 04/20/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Egypt, located on the isthmus of Africa, is an ideal region to study historical population dynamics due to its geographic location and documented interactions with ancient civilizations in Africa, Asia and Europe. Particularly, in the first millennium BCE Egypt endured foreign domination leading to growing numbers of foreigners living within its borders possibly contributing genetically to the local population. Here we present 90 mitochondrial genomes as well as genome-wide data sets from three individuals obtained from Egyptian mummies. The samples recovered from Middle Egypt span around 1,300 years of ancient Egyptian history from the New Kingdom to the Roman Period. Our analyses reveal that ancient Egyptians shared more ancestry with Near Easterners than present-day Egyptians, who received additional sub-Saharan admixture in more recent times. This analysis establishes ancient Egyptian mummies as a genetic source to study ancient human history and offers the perspective of deciphering Egypt's past at a genome-wide level. Archaeological and historical records had shown ancient Egypt before and after Ptolemaic and Roman periods to be a hub of human migration and exchange. Here, Schuenemann and colleagues analyse ancient mitochondrial and nuclear DNA to investigate the genetic history of Egypt.
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- Verena J Schuenemann
- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany.,Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany
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- Integrative Transcriptomics, Center for Bioinformatics, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.,Department for Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany
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- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany
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- Division of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, UK
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- Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 00-679 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department for Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany
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- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany
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- Integrative Transcriptomics, Center for Bioinformatics, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Berlin Society of Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory, 10997 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany.,Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany.,DFG Centre for Advanced Studies 'Words, Bones, Genes, Tools: Tracking Linguistic, Cultural and Biological Trajectories of the Human Past', University of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany
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- Department for Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany.,School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
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- Department for Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany
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- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany.,Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany.,Department for Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany
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Rijkers G. Cutting the Stone: Health Defined in the Era of Value-based Care. Cureus 2017; 9:e1023. [PMID: 28348941 PMCID: PMC5346012 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.1023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2017] [Accepted: 02/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The immune system contributes to the maintenance of health by preventing and limiting the clinical consequences of infections by pathogenic microorganisms. During the evolution of Homo sapiens, those with the fittest immune system survived. The immune system of Homo sapiens was further improved and adapted by admixture with Neanderthal genes. Nowadays, the human immune system provides adequate protection against the majority of infections. For some 20 infectious diseases, the immune system needs to be improved by vaccination. Vaccination is the number one value-based healthcare intervention and has resulted in global eradication of smallpox. Eradication of poliomyelitis and measles is within reach. A continuous effort will be required for recently emerged pathogens, such as Ebola and HIV, as well as the most difficult - malaria and tuberculosis.
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- Ger Rijkers
- Science Department, University College Roosevelt
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Effect of X-ray irradiation on ancient DNA in sub-fossil bones - Guidelines for safe X-ray imaging. Sci Rep 2016; 6:32969. [PMID: 27615365 PMCID: PMC5018823 DOI: 10.1038/srep32969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2016] [Accepted: 08/15/2016] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Sub-fossilised remains may still contain highly degraded ancient DNA (aDNA) useful for palaeogenetic investigations. Whether X-ray computed [micro-] tomography ([μ]CT) imaging of these fossils may further damage aDNA remains debated. Although the effect of X-ray on DNA in living organisms is well documented, its impact on aDNA molecules is unexplored. Here we investigate the effects of synchrotron X-ray irradiation on aDNA from Pleistocene bones. A clear correlation appears between decreasing aDNA quantities and accumulating X-ray dose-levels above 2000 Gray (Gy). We further find that strong X-ray irradiation reduces the amount of nucleotide misincorporations at the aDNA molecule ends. No representative effect can be detected for doses below 200 Gy. Dosimetry shows that conventional μCT usually does not reach the risky dose level, while classical synchrotron imaging can degrade aDNA significantly. Optimised synchrotron protocols and simple rules introduced here are sufficient to ensure that fossils can be scanned without impairing future aDNA studies.
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Lek M, Karczewski KJ, Minikel EV, Samocha KE, Banks E, Fennell T, O'Donnell-Luria AH, Ware JS, Hill AJ, Cummings BB, Tukiainen T, Birnbaum DP, Kosmicki JA, Duncan LE, Estrada K, Zhao F, Zou J, Pierce-Hoffman E, Berghout J, Cooper DN, Deflaux N, DePristo M, Do R, Flannick J, Fromer M, Gauthier L, Goldstein J, Gupta N, Howrigan D, Kiezun A, Kurki MI, Moonshine AL, Natarajan P, Orozco L, Peloso GM, Poplin R, Rivas MA, Ruano-Rubio V, Rose SA, Ruderfer DM, Shakir K, Stenson PD, Stevens C, Thomas BP, Tiao G, Tusie-Luna MT, Weisburd B, Won HH, Yu D, Altshuler DM, Ardissino D, Boehnke M, Danesh J, Donnelly S, Elosua R, Florez JC, Gabriel SB, Getz G, Glatt SJ, Hultman CM, Kathiresan S, Laakso M, McCarroll S, McCarthy MI, McGovern D, McPherson R, Neale BM, Palotie A, Purcell SM, Saleheen D, Scharf JM, Sklar P, Sullivan PF, Tuomilehto J, Tsuang MT, Watkins HC, Wilson JG, Daly MJ, MacArthur DG. Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans. Nature 2016; 536:285-91. [PMID: 27535533 PMCID: PMC5018207 DOI: 10.1038/nature19057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7427] [Impact Index Per Article: 928.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2015] [Accepted: 06/24/2016] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
Abstract
Large-scale reference data sets of human genetic variation are critical for the medical and functional interpretation of DNA sequence changes. Here we describe the aggregation and analysis of high-quality exome (protein-coding region) DNA sequence data for 60,706 individuals of diverse ancestries generated as part of the Exome Aggregation Consortium (ExAC). This catalogue of human genetic diversity contains an average of one variant every eight bases of the exome, and provides direct evidence for the presence of widespread mutational recurrence. We have used this catalogue to calculate objective metrics of pathogenicity for sequence variants, and to identify genes subject to strong selection against various classes of mutation; identifying 3,230 genes with near-complete depletion of predicted protein-truncating variants, with 72% of these genes having no currently established human disease phenotype. Finally, we demonstrate that these data can be used for the efficient filtering of candidate disease-causing variants, and for the discovery of human 'knockout' variants in protein-coding genes.
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- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,School of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia,Institute for Neuroscience and Muscle Research, Childrens Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA,Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,Division of Genetics and Genomics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA,National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK,NIHR Royal Brompton Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK,MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Mouse Genome Informatics, Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, USA,Center for Biomedical Informatics and Biostatistics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Institute of Medical Genetics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA,Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA,The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA,The Center for Statistical Genetics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA,Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA,Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA,Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Immunogenomics and Metabolic Disease Laboratory, Instituto Nacional de Medicina Gen—mica, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA,Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA,Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Institute of Medical Genetics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Molecular Biology and Genomic Medicine Unit, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias M_dicas y Nutrici—n, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Samsung Advanced Institute for Health Sciences and Technology (SAIHST), Sungkyunkwan University,Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Genetics, Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA,Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA,Department of Pathology and Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Psychiatric Genetic Epidemiology & Neurobiology Laboratory, State University of New York,Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, State University of New York,Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA,Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, State University of New York,Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA,Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK
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- Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Atherogenomics Laboratory, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA,Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA,Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA,Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA,Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA,Center for Non-Communicable Diseases, Karachi, , Pakistan
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA,Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA,Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA,Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA,Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA,Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
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- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA,Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Gogarten JF, Düx A, Schuenemann VJ, Nowak K, Boesch C, Wittig RM, Krause J, Calvignac-Spencer S, Leendertz FH. Tools for opening new chapters in the book of Treponema pallidum evolutionary history. Clin Microbiol Infect 2016; 22:916-921. [PMID: 27498082 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2016.07.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2016] [Revised: 07/04/2016] [Accepted: 07/25/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Treponema pallidum infections causing yaws disease and venereal syphilis are globally widespread in human populations, infecting hundreds of thousands and millions annually respectively; endemic syphilis is much less common, and pinta has not been observed in decades. We discuss controversy surrounding the origin, evolution and history of these pathogens in light of available molecular and anthropological evidence. These bacteria (or close relatives) seem to affect many wild African nonhuman primate (NHP) species, though to date only a single NHP Treponema pallidum genome has been published, hindering detection of spillover events and our understanding of potential wildlife reservoirs. Similarly, only ten genomes of Treponema pallidum infecting humans have been published, impeding a full understanding of their diversity and evolutionary history. Research efforts have been hampered by the difficulty of culturing and propagating Treponema pallidum. Here we highlight avenues of research recently opened by the coupling of hybridization capture and next-generation sequencing. We present data generated with such an approach suggesting that asymptomatic bones from NHP occasionally contain enough treponemal DNA to recover large fractions of their genomes. We expect that these methods, which naturally can be applied to modern biopsy samples and ancient human bones, will soon considerably improve our understanding of these enigmatic pathogens and lay rest to old yet unresolved controversies.
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- J F Gogarten
- Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms, Germany; Primatology Department, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany; Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms, Germany; Viral Evolution, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Archeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms, Germany
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- Primatology Department, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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- Primatology Department, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany; Taï Chimpanzee Project, CSRS, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire
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- Institute for Archeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
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- Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms, Germany; Viral Evolution, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
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- Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms, Germany.
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Kimmel M, Wojdyła T. Genetic demographic networks: Mathematical model and applications. Theor Popul Biol 2016; 111:75-86. [PMID: 27378746 DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2016.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2015] [Revised: 06/21/2016] [Accepted: 06/24/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Recent improvement in the quality of genetic data obtained from extinct human populations and their ancestors encourages searching for answers to basic questions regarding human population history. The most common and successful are model-based approaches, in which genetic data are compared to the data obtained from the assumed demography model. Using such approach, it is possible to either validate or adjust assumed demography. Model fit to data can be obtained based on reverse-time coalescent simulations or forward-time simulations. In this paper we introduce a computational method based on mathematical equation that allows obtaining joint distributions of pairs of individuals under a specified demography model, each of them characterized by a genetic variant at a chosen locus. The two individuals are randomly sampled from either the same or two different populations. The model assumes three types of demographic events (split, merge and migration). Populations evolve according to the time-continuous Moran model with drift and Markov-process mutation. This latter process is described by the Lyapunov-type equation introduced by O'Brien and generalized in our previous works. Application of this equation constitutes an original contribution. In the result section of the paper we present sample applications of our model to both simulated and literature-based demographies. Among other we include a study of the Slavs-Balts-Finns genetic relationship, in which we model split and migrations between the Balts and Slavs. We also include another example that involves the migration rates between farmers and hunters-gatherers, based on modern and ancient DNA samples. This latter process was previously studied using coalescent simulations. Our results are in general agreement with the previous method, which provides validation of our approach. Although our model is not an alternative to simulation methods in the practical sense, it provides an algorithm to compute pairwise distributions of alleles, in the case of haploid non-recombining loci such as mitochondrial and Y-chromosome loci in humans.
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- Marek Kimmel
- Department of Statistics, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX 77005, USA; Systems Engineering Group, Silesian University of Technology, Akademicka 16, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland.
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- Institute of Automatic Control, Silesian University of Technology, Akademicka 16, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland.
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Heath KM, Axton JH, McCullough JM, Harris N. The evolutionary adaptation of the C282Y mutation to culture and climate during the European Neolithic. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2016; 160:86-101. [PMID: 26799452 PMCID: PMC5066702 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2015] [Revised: 12/20/2015] [Accepted: 12/20/2015] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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OBJECTIVES The C282Y allele is the major cause of hemochromatosis as a result of excessive iron absorption. The mutation arose in continental Europe no earlier than 6,000 years ago, coinciding with the arrival of the Neolithic agricultural revolution. Here we hypothesize that this new Neolithic diet, which originated in the sunny warm and dry climates of the Middle East, was carried by migrating farmers into the chilly and damp environments of Europe where iron is a critical micronutrient for effective thermoregulation. We argue that the C282Y allele was an adaptation to this novel environment. MATERIALS AND METHODS To address our hypothesis, we compiled C282Y allele frequencies, known Neolithic sites in Europe and climatic data on temperature and rainfall for statistical analysis. RESULTS Our findings indicate that the geographic cline for C282Y frequency in Europe increases as average temperatures decrease below 16°C, a critical threshold for thermoregulation, with rainy days intensifying the trend. DISCUSSION The results indicate that the deleterious C282Y allele, responsible for most cases of hemochromatosis, may have evolved as a selective advantage to culture and climate during the European Neolithic.
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- Kathleen M. Heath
- Department of Earth and Environmental SystemsIndiana State UniversityTerre HauteIN47809
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- Department of BiologyIndiana State UniversityTerre HauteIN47809
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- Department of AnthropologyUniversity of UtahSalt Lake CityUT84112
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Kasperski A, Kasperska R. A new approach to the automatic identification of organism evolution using neural networks. Biosystems 2016; 142-143:32-42. [PMID: 26975238 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2016.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2015] [Revised: 01/20/2016] [Accepted: 03/08/2016] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Automatic identification of organism evolution still remains a challenging task, which is especially exiting, when the evolution of human is considered. The main aim of this work is to present a new idea to allow organism evolution analysis using neural networks. Here we show that it is possible to identify evolution of any organisms in a fully automatic way using the designed EvolutionXXI program, which contains implemented neural network. The neural network has been taught using cytochrome b sequences of selected organisms. Then, analyses have been carried out for the various exemplary organisms in order to demonstrate capabilities of the EvolutionXXI program. It is shown that the presented idea allows supporting existing hypotheses, concerning evolutionary relationships between selected organisms, among others, Sirenia and elephants, hippopotami and whales, scorpions and spiders, dolphins and whales. Moreover, primate (including human), tree shrew and yeast evolution has been reconstructed.
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- Andrzej Kasperski
- Faculty of Biological Sciences, Department of Biotechnology, University of Zielona Gora, ul. Szafrana 1, 65-516 Zielona Gora, Poland.
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- Institute of Occupational Safety Engineering and Work Science, University of Zielona Gora, ul. Szafrana 4, 65-516 Zielona Gora, Poland
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Jones MR, Good JM. Targeted capture in evolutionary and ecological genomics. Mol Ecol 2016; 25:185-202. [PMID: 26137993 PMCID: PMC4823023 DOI: 10.1111/mec.13304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 203] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2015] [Revised: 06/19/2015] [Accepted: 06/24/2015] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The rapid expansion of next-generation sequencing has yielded a powerful array of tools to address fundamental biological questions at a scale that was inconceivable just a few years ago. Various genome-partitioning strategies to sequence select subsets of the genome have emerged as powerful alternatives to whole-genome sequencing in ecological and evolutionary genomic studies. High-throughput targeted capture is one such strategy that involves the parallel enrichment of preselected genomic regions of interest. The growing use of targeted capture demonstrates its potential power to address a range of research questions, yet these approaches have yet to expand broadly across laboratories focused on evolutionary and ecological genomics. In part, the use of targeted capture has been hindered by the logistics of capture design and implementation in species without established reference genomes. Here we aim to (i) increase the accessibility of targeted capture to researchers working in nonmodel taxa by discussing capture methods that circumvent the need of a reference genome, (ii) highlight the evolutionary and ecological applications where this approach is emerging as a powerful sequencing strategy and (iii) discuss the future of targeted capture and other genome-partitioning approaches in the light of the increasing accessibility of whole-genome sequencing. Given the practical advantages and increasing feasibility of high-throughput targeted capture, we anticipate an ongoing expansion of capture-based approaches in evolutionary and ecological research, synergistic with an expansion of whole-genome sequencing.
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- Matthew R. Jones
- University of Montana, Division of Biological Sciences, 32 Campus Dr. HS104, Missoula, MT 59812, USA
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- University of Montana, Division of Biological Sciences, 32 Campus Dr. HS104, Missoula, MT 59812, USA
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Tassi F, Ghirotto S, Mezzavilla M, Vilaça ST, De Santi L, Barbujani G. Early modern human dispersal from Africa: genomic evidence for multiple waves of migration. INVESTIGATIVE GENETICS 2015; 6:13. [PMID: 26550467 PMCID: PMC4636834 DOI: 10.1186/s13323-015-0030-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2015] [Accepted: 10/27/2015] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Background Anthropological and genetic data agree in indicating the African continent as the main place of origin for anatomically modern humans. However, it is unclear whether early modern humans left Africa through a single, major process, dispersing simultaneously over Asia and Europe, or in two main waves, first through the Arab Peninsula into southern Asia and Oceania, and later through a northern route crossing the Levant. Results Here, we show that accurate genomic estimates of the divergence times between European and African populations are more recent than those between Australo-Melanesia and Africa and incompatible with the effects of a single dispersal. This difference cannot possibly be accounted for by the effects of either hybridization with archaic human forms in Australo-Melanesia or back migration from Europe into Africa. Furthermore, in several populations of Asia we found evidence for relatively recent genetic admixture events, which could have obscured the signatures of the earliest processes. Conclusions We conclude that the hypothesis of a single major human dispersal from Africa appears hardly compatible with the observed historical and geographical patterns of genome diversity and that Australo-Melanesian populations seem still to retain a genomic signature of a more ancient divergence from Africa Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13323-015-0030-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Francesca Tassi
- Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnologies, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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- Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnologies, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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- Institute for Maternal and Child Health-IRCCS "BurloGarofolo", University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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- Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnologies, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.,Present Address: Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnologies, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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- Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnologies, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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Edwards SV, Shultz AJ, Campbell-Staton SC. Next-generation sequencing and the expanding domain of phylogeography. FOLIA ZOOLOGICA 2015. [DOI: 10.25225/fozo.v64.i3.a2.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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- Scott V. Edwards
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
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Conservation archaeogenomics: ancient DNA and biodiversity in the Anthropocene. Trends Ecol Evol 2015; 30:540-9. [PMID: 26169594 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2015] [Revised: 06/11/2015] [Accepted: 06/15/2015] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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There is growing consensus that we have entered the Anthropocene, a geologic epoch characterized by human domination of the ecosystems of the Earth. With the future uncertain, we are faced with understanding how global biodiversity will respond to anthropogenic perturbations. The archaeological record provides perspective on human-environment relations through time and across space. Ancient DNA (aDNA) analyses of plant and animal remains from archaeological sites are particularly useful for understanding past human-environment interactions, which can help guide conservation decisions during the environmental changes of the Anthropocene. Here, we define the emerging field of conservation archaeogenomics, which integrates archaeological and genomic data to generate baselines or benchmarks for scientists, managers, and policy-makers by evaluating climatic and human impacts on past, present, and future biodiversity.
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Wollstein A, Stephan W. Inferring positive selection in humans from genomic data. INVESTIGATIVE GENETICS 2015; 6:5. [PMID: 25834723 PMCID: PMC4381672 DOI: 10.1186/s13323-015-0023-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2014] [Accepted: 02/23/2015] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Adaptation can be described as an evolutionary process that leads to an adjustment of the phenotypes of a population to their environment. In the classical view, new mutations can introduce novel phenotypic features into a population that leave footprints in the genome after fixation, such as selective sweeps. Alternatively, existing genetic variants may become beneficial after an environmental change and increase in frequency. Although they may not reach fixation, they may cause a shift of the optimum of a phenotypic trait controlled by multiple loci. With the availability of polymorphism data from various organisms, including humans and chimpanzees, it has become possible to detect molecular evidence of adaptation and to estimate the strength and target of positive selection. In this review, we discuss the two competing models of adaptation and suitable approaches for detecting the footprints of positive selection on the molecular level.
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- Andreas Wollstein
- Section of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biology II, University of Munich, Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Section of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biology II, University of Munich, Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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Anagnostou P, Capocasa M, Milia N, Sanna E, Battaggia C, Luzi D, Destro Bisol G. When data sharing gets close to 100%: what human paleogenetics can teach the open science movement. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0121409. [PMID: 25799293 PMCID: PMC4370607 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2014] [Accepted: 02/02/2015] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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This study analyzes data sharing regarding mitochondrial, Y chromosomal and autosomal polymorphisms in a total of 162 papers on ancient human DNA published between 1988 and 2013. The estimated sharing rate was not far from totality (97.6% ± 2.1%) and substantially higher than observed in other fields of genetic research (evolutionary, medical and forensic genetics). Both a questionnaire-based survey and the examination of Journals' editorial policies suggest that this high sharing rate cannot be simply explained by the need to comply with stakeholders requests. Most data were made available through body text, but the use of primary databases increased in coincidence with the introduction of complete mitochondrial and next-generation sequencing methods. Our study highlights three important aspects. First, our results imply that researchers' awareness of the importance of openness and transparency for scientific progress may complement stakeholders' policies in achieving very high sharing rates. Second, widespread data sharing does not necessarily coincide with a prevalent use of practices which maximize data findability, accessibility, useability and preservation. A detailed look at the different ways in which data are released can be very useful to detect failures to adopt the best sharing modalities and understand how to correct them. Third and finally, the case of human paleogenetics tells us that a widespread awareness of the importance of Open Science may be important to build reliable scientific practices even in the presence of complex experimental challenges.
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- Paolo Anagnostou
- Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, “Sapienza” Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
- Istituto Italiano di Antropologia, Rome, Italy
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- Istituto Italiano di Antropologia, Rome, Italy
- Dipartimento Biologia e Biotecnologie “Charles Darwin”, “Sapienza” Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente, Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente, Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, “Sapienza” Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
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- Istituto di Ricerche sulla Popolazione e le Politiche Sociali, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, “Sapienza” Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
- Istituto Italiano di Antropologia, Rome, Italy
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Nagy N, Farkas K, Kemény L, Széll M. Knowledge explosion for monogenic skin diseases. World J Dermatol 2015; 4:44-49. [DOI: 10.5314/wjd.v4.i1.44] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2014] [Revised: 11/12/2014] [Accepted: 12/01/2014] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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During the past few decades, the investigative tech-nologies of molecular biology - especially sequencing - underwent huge advances, leading to the sequencing of the entire human genome, as well as the identification of several candidate genes and the causative genetic variations that are responsible for monogenic skin diseases. These advances provided a solid basis for subsequent studies elucidating mechanisms of monogenic skin diseases and improving our understanding of common skin diseases. Furthermore, these discoveries also contributed to the development of novel therapeutic modalities for monogenic skin diseases. In this review, we have used the disease spectrum caused by mutations in the CYLD gene - Brooke-Spiegler syndrome, familial cylindromatosis and multiple familial trichoepithelioma type 1 - as a model for demonstrating the knowledge explosion for this group of diseases.
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