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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-11-5
pubmed:abstractText
There are two aspects regarding the age of alleles that are relevant as indicators of the timing of mutational events. The first is to know which alleles are species-specific; the second is about the time of origin of species-specific alleles. Both aspects can be analyzed using haplotype-sharing methods, by using the length of shared haplotypes as a measure of the speed of coalescence to common ancestors. The availability of sequence data for closely related species makes it possible to infer the original SNP allele. The allele present in more than one species is the original allele. In general, original alleles are expected to be more frequent, because the cumulative effects of genetic drift determine the maximum frequency a new mutant can reach. The human species is relatively young, and founder effects are still observable as extended linkage disequilibrium. Coalescence to a single founder takes place in human populations over a time frame that is so small that original haplotypes spanning several markers are still observable in current high-density SNP genotyping arrays. We show here that the length of shared haplotypes surrounding alleles is an indicator of the relative ages of alleles, and it is applicable to original and species-specific alleles.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1423-0062
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2009 S. Karger AG, Basel.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
69
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
52-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
A haplotype sharing method for determining the relative age of SNP alleles.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen and University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article