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ArticleEvolutionary bioinformatics online2021

Contrasting Patterns of Gene Duplication, Relocation, and Selection Among Human Taste Genes.

Yupeng Wang, Ying Sun, Paule Valery Joseph

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Yupeng WangBDX Research & Consulting LLC, Herndon, VA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3002-8069
Ying SunBDX Research & Consulting LLC, Herndon, VA, USA.
Paule Valery JosephDivision of Intramural Research, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1198-9622

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Sensory Science and Metabolism; Molecular and Neuronal Mechanisms ZIAAA000136 · NIAAA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM · PI JOSEPH, PAULE · 2021 to 2025
$3.2M
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Abstract

In humans, taste genes are responsible for perceiving at least 5 different taste qualities. Human taste genes' evolutionary mechanisms need to be explored. We compiled a list of 69 human taste-related genes and divided them into 7 functional groups. We carried out comparative genomic and evolutionary analyses for these taste genes based on 8 vertebrate species. We found that relative to other groups of human taste genes, human TAS2R genes have a higher proportion of tandem duplicates, suggesting that tandem duplications have contributed significantly to the expansion of the human TAS2R gene family. Human TAS2R genes tend to have fewer collinear genes in outgroup species and evolve faster, suggesting that human TAS2R genes have experienced more gene relocations. Moreover, human TAS2R genes tend to be under more relaxed purifying selection than other genes. Our study sheds new insights into diverse and contrasting evolutionary patterns among human taste genes.

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collinearitycomparative genomicsevolutiongene duplication modegene relocationtandem duplicationTaste gene

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PMCPMC8312168

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