The Distribution and Most Recent Common Ancestor of the 17q21 Inversion in Humans

The polymorphic inversion on 17q21, sometimes called the microtubular associated protein tau (MAPT) inversion, is an ∼900 kb inversion found primarily in Europeans and Southwest Asians. We have identified 21 SNPs that act as markers of the inverted, i.e., H2, haplotype. The inversion is found at the...

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Published in:American journal of human genetics 2010-02, Vol.86 (2), p.161-171
Main Authors: Donnelly, Michael P., Paschou, Peristera, Grigorenko, Elena, Gurwitz, David, Mehdi, Syed Qasim, Kajuna, Sylvester L.B., Barta, Csaba, Kungulilo, Selemani, Karoma, N.J., Lu, Ru-Band, Zhukova, Olga V., Kim, Jong-Jin, Comas, David, Siniscalco, Marcello, New, Maria, Li, Peining, Li, Hui, Manolopoulos, Vangelis G., Speed, William C., Rajeevan, Haseena, Pakstis, Andrew J., Kidd, Judith R., Kidd, Kenneth K.
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Language:English
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Animals
Chromosome Inversion - genetics
Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17 - genetics
Genètica
Heterozygote
Humans
In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
Ireland
Microsatellite Repeats - genetics
Phylogeny
Polymorphism
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide - genetics
Primates - genetics
Primats
Proteins
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Summary:The polymorphic inversion on 17q21, sometimes called the microtubular associated protein tau (MAPT) inversion, is an ∼900 kb inversion found primarily in Europeans and Southwest Asians. We have identified 21 SNPs that act as markers of the inverted, i.e., H2, haplotype. The inversion is found at the highest frequencies in Southwest Asia and Southern Europe (frequencies of ∼30%); elsewhere in Europe, frequencies vary from < 5%, in Finns, to 28%, in Orcadians. The H2 inversion haplotype also occurs at low frequencies in Africa, Central Asia, East Asia, and the Americas, though the East Asian and Amerindian alleles may be due to recent gene flow from Europe. Molecular evolution analyses indicate that the H2 haplotype originally arose in Africa or Southwest Asia. Though the H2 inversion has many fixed differences across the ∼900 kb, short tandem repeat polymorphism data indicate a very recent date for the most recent common ancestor, with dates ranging from 13,600 to 108,400 years, depending on assumptions and estimation methods. This estimate range is much more recent than the 3 million year age estimated by Stefansson et al. in 2005.1
ISSN:0002-9297
1537-6605
DOI:10.1016/j.ajhg.2010.01.007