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Visualizing Visual Adaptation
Published on: April 24, 2017
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過去2000年における人間の適応の検出
Yair Field1,2, Evan A Boyle3, Natalie Telis4
1Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. yairf@stanford.edu pritch@stanford.edu.
まとめ
ゲノム配列を用いて 最近の自然選択を検出する シングルトン密度スコア (SDS) という 新しい方法を開発しました SDSは人間の祖先の 遺伝的変化を明らかにし その中には身長や髪の毛や目の色などの 特徴の適応も含まれます
科学分野:
- 人口遺伝学
- 人間 の 進化
- ゲノミクス
背景:
- 最近の自然選択を 検知することは大きな課題です
- 最近の人間の遺伝的適応を理解するには 先進的な分析方法が必要です
研究 の 目的:
- 現代のゲノム配列から最近のアレル頻度変化を推論するための新手法であるシングルトン密度スコア (SDS) を導入する.
- イギリスの祖先における最近の自然選択を調査するために,SDSをUK10Kプロジェクトデータに適用する.
主な方法:
- シングルトン密度スコア (SDS) の開発と適用
- UK10Kプロジェクトからの現代のゲノム配列の分析
- アレル頻度の推論は過去2000〜3000年にわたって変化している.
主要な成果:
- SDSは乳糖と主要組織相容性複合体のような遺伝子の 最近の選択の強い信号を特定しました
- 金髪と青い目を好む適応が検出されました.
- 高さを増やすための最近の選択はゲノム全体のアレル周波数シフトを引き起こし,広範囲にわたる多遺伝子適応を示していることが判明した.
結論:
- シングルトン密度スコア (SDS) は,最近の自然選択を検出するための効果的な方法です.
- 多遺伝的適応は,ヒトの遺伝子型と現象型の変化を形作る上で重要な役割を果たしてきた.
- 最近の選択は 人種集団の複雑な特徴や身体的特徴に影響を与えています
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