ArticleGenes and immunity2006
Levels of interpopulation differentiation among different functional classes of immunologically important genes.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Patterns of nucleotide and haplotype diversity at ICAM-1 across global human populations with varying levels of malaria exposure.Human genetics · 2013Article
- Purifying selection modulates the estimates of population differentiation and confounds genome-wide comparisons across single-nucleotide polymorphisms.Molecular biology and evolution · 2012Article
- Distribution of events of positive selection and population differentiation in a metabolic pathway: the case of asparagine N-glycosylation.BMC evolutionary biology · 2012Article
- Haplotype structure and expression divergence at the Drosophila cellular immune gene eater.Molecular biology and evolution · 2010Article
- Patterns of population differentiation of candidate genes for cardiovascular disease.BMC genetics · 2007Article
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Abstract
It has been postulated that gene function may influence the degree to which allele frequencies differ among populations. In order to evaluate this effect, genotypic data from resequencing studies of genes classified as cytokines, cytokine receptors, cell adhesion molecules, Toll-like receptors and coagulation proteins were analysed for genetic differentiation (FST) between population samples of European and African descent. FST values did not differ statistically among functional groups when all polymorphic sites were included in the analyses. However, analysis based on nonsynonymous SNPs alone suggested weak heterogeneity among functional classes (P=0.0424). Particularly high levels of differentiation were shown by individual nonsynonymous SNPs at some genes, most notably ICAM1 and some Toll-like receptors. These genes interact directly with pathogens, and may therefore have been subject to geographically localised natural selection. Such loci warrant particular attention in studies of genetic disease risk and local adaptation to environmental conditions.
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