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An evolutionary driver of interspersed segmental duplications in primates.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:The complex interspersed pattern of segmental duplications in humans is responsible for rearrangements associated with neurodevelopmental disease, including the emergence of novel genes important in human brain evolution. We investigate the evolution of LCR16a, a putative driver of this phenomenon that encodes one of the most rapidly evolving human-ape gene families, nuclear pore interacting protein (NPIP). RESULTS:Comparative analysis shows that LCR16a has independently expanded in five primate lineages over the last 35 million years of primate evolution. The expansions are associated with independent lineage-specific segmental duplications flanking LCR16a leading to the emergence of large interspersed duplication blocks at non-orthologous chromosomal locations in each primate lineage. The intron-exon structure of the NPIP gene family has changed dramatically throughout primate evolution with different branches showing characteristic gene models yet maintaining an open reading frame. In the African ape lineage, we detect signatures of positive selection that occurred after a transition to more ubiquitous expression among great ape tissues when compared to Old World and New World monkeys. Mouse transgenic experiments from baboon and human genomic loci confirm these expression differences and suggest that the broader ape expression pattern arose due to mutational changes that emerged in cis. CONCLUSIONS:LCR16a promotes serial interspersed duplications and creates hotspots of genomic instability that appear to be an ancient property of primate genomes. Dramatic changes to NPIP gene structure and altered tissue expression preceded major bouts of positive selection in the African ape lineage, suggestive of a gene undergoing strong adaptive evolution.

SUBMITTER: Cantsilieris S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7419210 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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An evolutionary driver of interspersed segmental duplications in primates.

Cantsilieris Stuart S Sunkin Susan M SM Johnson Matthew E ME Anaclerio Fabio F Huddleston John J Baker Carl C Dougherty Max L ML Underwood Jason G JG Sulovari Arvis A Hsieh PingHsun P Mao Yafei Y Catacchio Claudia Rita CR Malig Maika M Welch AnneMarie E AE Sorensen Melanie M Munson Katherine M KM Jiang Weihong W Girirajan Santhosh S Ventura Mario M Lamb Bruce T BT Conlon Ronald A RA Eichler Evan E EE

Genome biology 20200810 1

<h4>Background</h4>The complex interspersed pattern of segmental duplications in humans is responsible for rearrangements associated with neurodevelopmental disease, including the emergence of novel genes important in human brain evolution. We investigate the evolution of LCR16a, a putative driver of this phenomenon that encodes one of the most rapidly evolving human-ape gene families, nuclear pore interacting protein (NPIP).<h4>Results</h4>Comparative analysis shows that LCR16a has independentl ...[more]

PMID: 32778141

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Project description:MOTIVATION:Several algorithms have been developed that use high-throughput sequencing technology to characterize structural variations (SVs). Most of the existing approaches focus on detecting relatively simple types of SVs such as insertions, deletions and short inversions. In fact, complex SVs are of crucial importance and several have been associated with genomic disorders. To better understand the contribution of complex SVs to human disease, we need new algorithms to accurately discover and genotype such variants. Additionally, due to similar sequencing signatures, inverted duplications or gene conversion events that include inverted segmental duplications are often characterized as simple inversions, likewise, duplications and gene conversions in direct orientation may be called as simple deletions. Therefore, there is still a need for accurate algorithms to fully characterize complex SVs and thus improve calling accuracy of more simple variants. RESULTS:We developed novel algorithms to accurately characterize tandem, direct and inverted interspersed segmental duplications using short read whole genome sequencing datasets. We integrated these methods to our TARDIS tool, which is now capable of detecting various types of SVs using multiple sequence signatures such as read pair, read depth and split read. We evaluated the prediction performance of our algorithms through several experiments using both simulated and real datasets. In the simulation experiments, using a 30× coverage TARDIS achieved 96% sensitivity with only 4% false discovery rate. For experiments that involve real data, we used two haploid genomes (CHM1 and CHM13) and one human genome (NA12878) from the Illumina Platinum Genomes set. Comparison of our results with orthogonal PacBio call sets from the same genomes revealed higher accuracy for TARDIS than state-of-the-art methods. Furthermore, we showed a surprisingly low false discovery rate of our approach for discovery of tandem, direct and inverted interspersed segmental duplications prediction on CHM1 (<5% for the top 50 predictions). AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION:TARDIS source code is available at https://github.com/BilkentCompGen/tardis, and a corresponding Docker image is available at https://hub.docker.com/r/alkanlab/tardis/. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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An evolutionary driver of interspersed segmental duplications in primates.

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An evolutionary driver of interspersed segmental duplications in primates.

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