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Genome-wide detection and characterization of positive selection in human populations

Nature volume 449, pages 913–918 (2007)Cite this article

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With the advent of dense maps of human genetic variation, it is now possible to detect positive natural selection across the human genome. Here we report an analysis of over 3 million polymorphisms from the International HapMap Project Phase 2 (HapMap2)1. We used ‘long-range haplotype’ methods, which were developed to identify alleles segregating in a population that have undergone recent selection2, and we also developed new methods that are based on cross-population comparisons to discover alleles that have swept to near-fixation within a population. The analysis reveals more than 300 strong candidate regions. Focusing on the strongest 22 regions, we develop a heuristic for scrutinizing these regions to identify candidate targets of selection. In a complementary analysis, we identify 26 non-synonymous, coding, single nucleotide polymorphisms showing regional evidence of positive selection. Examination of these candidates highlights three cases in which two genes in a common biological process have apparently undergone positive selection in the same population:LARGE and DMD, both related to infection by the Lassa virus3, in West Africa;SLC24A5 and SLC45A2, both involved in skin pigmentation4,5, in Europe; and EDAR and EDA2R, both involved in development of hair follicles6, in Asia.

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Figure 1: Localizing SLC24A5 and EDAR signals of selection.
Figure 2: Global distribution of SLC24A5 A111T and EDAR V370A.
Figure 3: Structural model of the EDAR death domain.

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Acknowledgements

P.C.S. is funded by a Burroughs Wellcome Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences and has been funded by the Damon Runyon Cancer Fellowship and the L’Oreal for Women in Science Award. We thank A. Schier, B. Voight, R. Roberts, M. Kreiger, A. Abzhanov, D. Degusta, M. Burnette, E. Lieberman, M. Daly, D. Altshuler, D. Reich, D. Lieberman and I. Woods for helpful discussions on our analysis and results. We also thank L. Ziaugra, D. Tabbaa and T. Rachupka for experimental assistance. This work was funded in part by grants from the National Human Genome Research Institute (to E.S.L.) and from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Author Contributions P.C.S., P.V., B.F. and E.S.L. initiated the project. P.V., B.F. and P.C.S. developed key software. P.C.S., P.V., B.F., S.F.S., J.L., E.H., C.C., X.X., E.B., S.A.McC. and R.G. performed analysis. P.C.S., E.B. and E.H. performed experiments. P.C.S., E.S.L., P.V. and S.F.S. wrote the manuscript.

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  1. Pardis C. Sabeti and Patrick Varilly: These authors contributed equally to this work.

  2. Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, 3-2-2 Kasumigaseki, Chiyodaku, Tokyo 100-8959, Japan.

  3. The Human Genetic Resource Administration of China, b7, Zaojunmiao, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China.

  4. Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to P.C.S. (pardis@broad.mit.edu).

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    Chris Cotsapas & Steven A. McCarroll

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    Rachelle Gaudet

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    Eric S. Lander

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    Eric S. Lander

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    Dennis G. Ballinger, David R. Cox, David A. Hinds & Laura L. Stuve

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  42. Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, 5734 S. University Avenue, Eckhart Hall, Room 126, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.,

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  43. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Avenue North, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA.,

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  44. University of Oxford/Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK.,

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  50. Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Ishikari Tobetsu Machi 1757, Hokkaido 061-0293, Japan.,

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  51. Department of Medical Genetics, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto 390-8621, Japan.,

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  54. Howard University, National Human Genome Center, 2216 6th Street, NW, Washington, District of Columbia 20059, USA.,

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  57. Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, 15 North 2030 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA.,

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  58. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Philosophy/Center for Applied Ethics, 2121, Building 9, Caoqiao Xinyuan 3 Qu, Beijing 100067, China.,

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  59. Genetic Interest Group, 4D Leroy House, 436 Essex Road, London N130P, UK.,

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  60. Kyoto University, Institute for Research in Humanities and Graduate School of Biostudies, Ushinomiya-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan.,

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  62. Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, 455 W. Lindsey Street, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA.,

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  66. Chinese Academy of Sciences, 52 Sanlihe Road, Beijing 100864, China.,

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The file contains Supplementary Methods, Supplementary Figures S1-S10 with Legends and Supplementary Tables 1-11. Supplementary Methods give details of LRH, iHS, XP-EHH, and localization analysis, including simulations and power calculations, Sweep software, ruling out confounders and details of identification of functional elements in the top candidates. Supplementary Tables illustrate power calculations for LRH, iHS, and XP-EHH, candidate regions and polymorphisms found from several analysis, fraction of SNPs predicted to be in the HapMap and dbSNP, as well as locations of copy number variants in the top candidates. Supplementary Figures show schematic of localization heuristic, power of LRH, iHS, and XP-EHH, top XP-EHH candidate,. localization of signal in LCT region, conservation, protein sequence and structure prediction, global variation, and examination of copy number variants for SLC24A5 and EDAR. (PDF 1482 kb)

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Sabeti, P., Varilly, P., Fry, B. et al. Genome-wide detection and characterization of positive selection in human populations. Nature 449, 913–918 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06250

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