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- Title
A Novel Framework for the Identification and Analysis of Duplicons between Human and Chimpanzee.
- Authors
Chuang, Trees-Juen; Wu, Shian-Zu; Huang, Yao-Ting
- Abstract
Human and other primate genomes consist of many segmental duplications (SDs) due to fixation of copy number variations (CNVs). Structure of these duplications within the human genome has been shown to be a complex mosaic composed of juxtaposed subunits (called duplicons). These duplicons are difficult to be uncovered from the mosaic repeat structure. In addition, the distribution and evolution of duplicons among primates are still poorly investigated. In this paper, we develop a statistical framework for discovering duplicons via integration of a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and a permutation test. Our comparative analysis indicates that the mosaic structure of duplicons is common in CNV/SD regions of both human and chimpanzee genomes, and a subset of core dupliconsis shared by the majority of CNVs/SDs. Phylogenetic analyses using duplicons suggested that most CNVs/SDs share common duplication ancestry. Many human/chimpanzee duplicons flank both ends of CNVs, which may be hotspots of nonallelic homologous recombination.
- Publication
BioMed Research International, 2013, Vol 2013, p264532
- ISSN
2314-6133
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
2013/264532