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Genomic approaches to trace the history of human brain evolution with an emerging opportunity for transposon profiling of ancient humans.

Yilan Wang, Boxun Zhao, Jaejoon Choi, Eunjung Alice Lee

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Review in Mobile DNA, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Yilan Wang *Division of Genetics and Genomics, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Boxun Zhao *Division of Genetics and Genomics, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Jaejoon ChoiDivision of Genetics and Genomics, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Eunjung Alice LeeDivision of Genetics and Genomics, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. ealice.lee@childrens.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6574-9261

Funding

Mechanism for endogenous retroelements to mimic ancient exogenous identities in aging and diseased human tissueDP2AG072437 · NIA · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI LEE, EUNJUNG ALICE · 2020 to 2020
$2.7M
The role of somatic mutation in neurodegenerative diseaseK01AG051791 · NIA · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI LEE, EUNJUNG ALICE · 2016 to 2020
$655k
NIA NIH HHS DP2 AG072437NIA NIH HHS K01 AG051791NIA NIH HHS K01AG051791
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transposable elements (TEs) significantly contribute to shaping the diversity of the human genome, and lines of evidence suggest TEs as one of driving forces of human brain evolution. Existing computational approaches, including cross-species comparative genomics and population genetic modeling, can be adapted for the study of the role of TEs in evolution. In particular, diverse ancient and archaic human genome sequences are increasingly available, allowing reconstruction of past human migration events and holding the promise of identifying and tracking TEs among other evolutionarily important genetic variants at an unprecedented spatiotemporal resolution. However, highly degraded short DNA templates and other unique challenges presented by ancient human DNA call for major changes in current experimental and computational procedures to enable the identification of evolutionarily important TEs. Ancient human genomes are valuable resources for investigating TEs in the evolutionary context, and efforts to explore ancient human genomes will potentially provide a novel perspective on the genetic mechanism of human brain evolution and inspire a variety of technological and methodological advances. In this review, we summarize computational and experimental approaches that can be adapted to identify and validate evolutionarily important TEs, especially for human brain evolution. We also highlight strategies that leverage ancient genomic data and discuss unique challenges in ancient transposon genomics.

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Ancient human genomesHuman brain evolutionTransposable elements

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