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Principal Investigator: William Burkholder, Microfluidics Systems Biology Lab, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Republic of Singapore MeSH: Molecular Structure https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/gap/cgi-bin/study.cgi?study_id=phs000732 Insertions of the human-specific subfamily of LINE-1 (L1) retrotransposon are highly polymorphic across individuals and can critically influence the human transcriptome. We hypothesized that L1 insertions could represent genetic variants determining important human phenotypic traits, and performed an integrated analysis of L1 elements and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in several human populations. We found that a large fraction of L1s were in high linkage disequilibrium (LD) with their surrounding genomic regions and that they were well-tagged by SNPs. However, L1 variants were only partially captured by SNPs on standard SNP arrays, so that their potential phenotypic impact would be frequently missed by SNP array-based genome-wide association studies. We next identified potential phenotypic effects of L1s by looking for signatures of natural selection linked to L1 insertions; significant extended haplotype homozygosity (EHH) was detected around several L1 insertions. This suggests that some of these L1 insertions may have been the target of recent positive selection.

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William Burkholder, Microfluidics Systems Biology Lab, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

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13 dicembre 2022

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