A population threshold for functional polymorphisms
- Author(s)
- Wong, GKS; Yang, ZY; Passey, DA; Kibukawa, M; Paddock, M; Liu, CR; Bolund, L; Yu, J;
- Details
- Publication Year 2003-08,Volume 13,Issue #8,Page 1873-1879
- Journal Title
- GENOME RESEARCH
- Publication Type
- Journal Article
- Abstract
- We sequenced 114 genes (for DNA repair, cell cycle arrest, apoptosis, and detoxification) in a mixed human population and observed a sudden increase in the number of functional polymorphisms below a minor allele frequency of similar to6%. Functionality is assessed by considering the ratio in the number of nonsynonymous single nucletide polymorphisms (SNPs) to the number of synonymous or intron SNPs. This ratio is steady from below 1% in frequency-that regime traditionally associated with rare Mendelian diseases-all the way up to about 6% ill frequency, after which it falls precipitously. We consider possible explanations for this threshold effect. There are four candidates as follows: (1) deleterious variants that have yet to be purified from the Population, (2) balancing selection, in which a selective advantage accrues to the heterozygotes, (3) population-specific functional polymorphisms, and (4) adaptive variants that are accumulating in the population as a response to the dramatic environmental changes of the last 7,000similar to17,000 years.
- Publisher
- COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT
- Keywords
- SINGLE-NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC-VARIATION; HUMAN GENOME; SELECTION; DISEASE; SUBSTITUTIONS; EVOLUTION; SPECTRUM; PATTERNS
- Publisher's Version
- https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.1324303
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Creation Date: 2003-08-01 12:00:00