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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-9-15
pubmed:abstractText
Because deleterious alleles arising from mutation are filtered by natural selection, mutations that create such alleles will be underrepresented in the set of common genetic variation existing in a population at any given time. Here, we describe an approach based on this idea called VERIFY (variant elimination reinforces functionality), which can be used to assess the extent of natural selection acting on an oligonucleotide motif or set of motifs predicted to have biological activity. As an application of this approach, we analyzed a set of 238 hexanucleotides previously predicted to have exonic splicing enhancer (ESE) activity in human exons using the relative enhancer and silencer classification by unanimous enrichment (RESCUE)-ESE method. Aligning the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from the public human SNP database to the chimpanzee genome allowed inference of the direction of the mutations that created present-day SNPs. Analyzing the set of SNPs that overlap RESCUE-ESE hexamers, we conclude that nearly one-fifth of the mutations that disrupt predicted ESEs have been eliminated by natural selection (odds ratio = 0.82 +/- 0.05). This selection is strongest for the predicted ESEs that are located near splice sites. Our results demonstrate a novel approach for quantifying the extent of natural selection acting on candidate functional motifs and also suggest certain features of mutations/SNPs, such as proximity to the splice site and disruption or alteration of predicted ESEs, that should be useful in identifying variants that might cause a biological phenotype.
pubmed:grant
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1545-7885
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
2
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
E268
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15340491-Alleles, pubmed-meshheading:15340491-Alternative Splicing, pubmed-meshheading:15340491-Amino Acid Motifs, pubmed-meshheading:15340491-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:15340491-CpG Islands, pubmed-meshheading:15340491-Databases, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:15340491-Enhancer Elements, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:15340491-Exons, pubmed-meshheading:15340491-Genetic Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:15340491-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:15340491-Models, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:15340491-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:15340491-Odds Ratio, pubmed-meshheading:15340491-Oligonucleotides, pubmed-meshheading:15340491-Pan troglodytes, pubmed-meshheading:15340491-Phenotype, pubmed-meshheading:15340491-Polymorphism, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:15340491-Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, pubmed-meshheading:15340491-RNA Splicing
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Single nucleotide polymorphism-based validation of exonic splicing enhancers.
pubmed:affiliation
Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural