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Evolutionary and functional impact of common polymorphic inversions in the human genome.

ABSTRACT: Inversions are one type of structural variants linked to phenotypic differences and adaptation in multiple organisms. However, there is still very little information about polymorphic inversions in the human genome due to the difficulty of their detection. Here, we develop a new high-throughput genotyping method based on probe hybridization and amplification, and we perform a complete study of 45 common human inversions of 0.1-415?kb. Most inversions promoted by homologous recombination occur recurrently in humans and great apes and they are not tagged by SNPs. Furthermore, there is an enrichment of inversions showing signatures of positive or balancing selection, diverse functional effects, such as gene disruption and gene-expression changes, or association with phenotypic traits. Therefore, our results indicate that the genome is more dynamic than previously thought and that human inversions have important functional and evolutionary consequences, making possible to determine for the first time their contribution to complex traits.

SUBMITTER: Giner-Delgado C

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6748972 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Evolutionary and functional impact of common polymorphic inversions in the human genome.

Giner-Delgado Carla C Villatoro Sergi S Lerga-Jaso Jon J Gayà-Vidal Magdalena M Oliva Meritxell M Castellano David D Pantano Lorena L Bitarello Bárbara D BD Izquierdo David D Noguera Isaac I Olalde Iñigo I Delprat Alejandra A Blancher Antoine A Lalueza-Fox Carles C Esko Tõnu T O'Reilly Paul F PF Andrés Aida M AM Ferretti Luca L Puig Marta M Cáceres Mario M

Nature communications 20190917 1

Inversions are one type of structural variants linked to phenotypic differences and adaptation in multiple organisms. However, there is still very little information about polymorphic inversions in the human genome due to the difficulty of their detection. Here, we develop a new high-throughput genotyping method based on probe hybridization and amplification, and we perform a complete study of 45 common human inversions of 0.1-415 kb. Most inversions promoted by homologous recombination occur re ...[more]

PMID: 31530810

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Project description:Polymorphic inversions are a source of genetic variability with a direct impact on recombination frequencies. Given the difficulty of their experimental study, computational methods have been developed to infer their existence in a large number of individuals using genome-wide data of nucleotide variation. Methods based on haplotype tagging of known inversions attempt to classify individuals as having a normal or inverted allele. Other methods that measure differences between linkage disequilibrium attempt to identify regions with inversions but unable to classify subjects accurately, an essential requirement for association studies.We present a novel method to both identify polymorphic inversions from genome-wide genotype data and classify individuals as containing a normal or inverted allele. Our method, a generalization of a published method for haplotype data 1, utilizes linkage between groups of SNPs to partition a set of individuals into normal and inverted subpopulations. We employ a sliding window scan to identify regions likely to have an inversion, and accumulation of evidence from neighboring SNPs is used to accurately determine the inversion status of each subject. Further, our approach detects inversions directly from genotype data, thus increasing its usability to current genome-wide association studies (GWAS).We demonstrate the accuracy of our method to detect inversions and classify individuals on principled-simulated genotypes, produced by the evolution of an inversion event within a coalescent model 2. We applied our method to real genotype data from HapMap Phase III to characterize the inversion status of two known inversions within the regions 17q21 and 8p23 across 1184 individuals. Finally, we scan the full genomes of the European Origin (CEU) and Yoruba (YRI) HapMap samples. We find population-based evidence for 9 out of 15 well-established autosomic inversions, and for 52 regions previously predicted by independent experimental methods in ten (9+1) individuals 34. We provide efficient implementations of both genotype and haplotype methods as a unified R package inveRsion.

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Evolutionary and functional impact of common polymorphic inversions in the human genome.

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Evolutionary and functional impact of common polymorphic inversions in the human genome.

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