Sex-biased evolutionary forces shape genomic patterns of human diversity.

ABSTRACT: Comparisons of levels of variability on the autosomes and X chromosome can be used to test hypotheses about factors influencing patterns of genomic variation. While a tremendous amount of nucleotide sequence data from across the genome is now available for multiple human populations, there has been no systematic effort to examine relative levels of neutral polymorphism on the X chromosome versus autosomes. We analyzed approximately 210 kb of DNA sequencing data representing 40 independent noncoding regions on the autosomes and X chromosome from each of 90 humans from six geographically diverse populations. We correct for differences in mutation rates between males and females by considering the ratio of within-human diversity to human-orangutan divergence. We find that relative levels of g

SUBMITTER: Hammer MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2538571 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature