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ArticleGenomics, proteomics & bioinformatics2024

Centromere Landscapes Resolved from Hundreds of Human Genomes.

Shenghan Gao, Yimeng Zhang, Stephen J Bush, Bo Wang, Xiaofei Yang, Kai Ye

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Article in Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Shenghan GaoSchool of Automation Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3810-6527
Yimeng ZhangSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.ORCID 0009-0007-1300-291X
Stephen J BushSchool of Automation Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9341-2562
Bo WangSchool of Automation Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9041-878X
Xiaofei YangSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5118-7755
Kai YeSchool of Automation Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2851-6741

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High-fidelity (HiFi) sequencing has facilitated the assembly and analysis of the most repetitive region of the genome, the centromere. Nevertheless, our current understanding of human centromeres is based on a relatively small number of telomere-to-telomere assemblies, which have not yet captured its full diversity. In this study, we investigated the genomic diversity of human centromere higher order repeats (HORs) via both HiFi reads and haplotype-resolved assemblies from hundreds of samples drawn from ongoing pangenome-sequencing projects and reprocessed them via a novel HOR annotation pipeline, HiCAT-human. We used this wealth of data to provide a global survey of the centromeric HOR landscape; in particular, we found that 23 HORs presented significant copy number variability between populations. We detected three centromere genotypes with unbalanced population frequencies on chromosomes 5, 8, and 17. An inter-assembly comparison of HOR loci further revealed that while HOR array structures are diverse, they nevertheless tend to form a number of specific landscapes, each exhibiting different levels of HOR subunit expansion and possibly reflecting a cyclical evolutionary transition from homogeneous to nested structures and back.

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CentromereGenome, HumanDNA Copy Number VariationsHaplotypesHumansRepetitive Sequences, Nucleic AcidCentromere sequenceGenome evolutionHigher order repeat annotationHigh-fidelity sequencing technologyHuman population

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