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Title: Global diversity, population stratification, and selection of human copy-number variation.

Authors: Sudmant, Peter H; Mallick, Swapan; Nelson, Bradley J; Hormozdiari, Fereydoun; Krumm, Niklas; Huddleston, John; Coe, Bradley P; Baker, Carl; Nordenfelt, Susanne; Bamshad, Michael; Jorde, Lynn B; Posukh, Olga L; Sahakyan, Hovhannes; Watkins, W Scott; Yepiskoposyan, Levon; Abdullah, M Syafiq; Bravi, Claudio M; Capelli, Cristian; Hervig, Tor; Wee, Joseph T S; Tyler-Smith, Chris; van Driem, George; Romero, Irene Gallego; Jha, Aashish R; Karachanak-Yankova, Sena; Toncheva, Draga; Comas, David; Henn, Brenna; Kivisild, Toomas; Ruiz-Linares, Andres; Sajantila, Antti; Metspalu, Ene; Parik, Jüri; Villems, Richard; Starikovskaya, Elena B; Ayodo, George; Beall, Cynthia M; Di Rienzo, Anna; Hammer, Michael F; Khusainova, Rita; Khusnutdinova, Elza; Klitz, William; Winkler, Cheryl; Labuda, Damian; Metspalu, Mait; Tishkoff, Sarah A; Dryomov, Stanislav; Sukernik, Rem; Patterson, Nick; Reich, David; Eichler, Evan E

Published In Science, (2015 09 11)

Abstract: In order to explore the diversity and selective signatures of duplication and deletion human copy-number variants (CNVs), we sequenced 236 individuals from 125 distinct human populations. We observed that duplications exhibit fundamentally different population genetic and selective signatures than deletions and are more likely to be stratified between human populations. Through reconstruction of the ancestral human genome, we identify megabases of DNA lost in different human lineages and pinpoint large duplications that introgressed from the extinct Denisova lineage now found at high frequency exclusively in Oceanic populations. We find that the proportion of CNV base pairs to single-nucleotide-variant base pairs is greater among non-Africans than it is among African populations, but we conclude that this difference is likely due to unique aspects of non-African population history as opposed to differences in CNV load.

PubMed ID: 26249230 Exiting the NIEHS site

MeSH Terms: Animals; Blacks/classification; Blacks/genetics; DNA Copy Number Variations*; Evolution, Molecular*; Gene Duplication*; Genome, Human/genetics*; Hominidae/genetics; Humans; Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander/classification; Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander/genetics; Phylogeny; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; Population/genetics*; Selection, Genetic; Sequence Deletion*

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