A GWAS in Latin Americans highlights the convergent evolution of lighter skin pigmentation in Eurasia

We report a genome-wide association scan in >6,000 Latin Americans for pigmentation of skin and eyes. We found eighteen signals of association at twelve genomic regions. These include one novel locus for skin pigmentation (in 10q26) and three novel loci for eye pigmentation (in 1q32, 20q13 and 22...

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Autores: Adhikari, Kaustubh, Mendoza Revilla, Javier, Sohail, Anood, Fuentes Guajardo, Macarena, Lampert, Jodie, Chacón Duque, Juan Camilo, Hurtado, Malena, Villegas, Valeria, Granja, Vanessa, Acuña Alonzo, Victor, Jaramillo, Claudia, Arias, William, Lozano, Rodrigo Barquera, Everardo, Paola, Gómez Valdés, Jorge, Villamil-Ramírez, Hugo, Silva de Cerqueira, Caio C., Hünemeier, Tábita, Ramallo, Virginia, Schuler Faccini, Lavinia, Salzano, Francisco M., González José, Rolando, Bortolini, Maria Catira, Canizales Quinteros, Samuel, Gallo, Carla, Poletti, Giovanni, Bedoya, Gabriel, Rothhammer, Francisco, Tobin, Desmond J., Fumagalli, Matteo, Balding, David, Ruiz-Linares, Andres
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2019
País:Argentina
Recursos:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositório:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/99811
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/99811
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:LATIN AMERICANS
GWAS
SKIN PIGMENTATION
ADMIXTURE
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Resumo:We report a genome-wide association scan in >6,000 Latin Americans for pigmentation of skin and eyes. We found eighteen signals of association at twelve genomic regions. These include one novel locus for skin pigmentation (in 10q26) and three novel loci for eye pigmentation (in 1q32, 20q13 and 22q12). We demonstrate the presence of multiple independent signals of association in the 11q14 and 15q13 regions (comprising the GRM5/TYR and HERC2/OCA2 genes, respectively) and several epistatic interactions among independently associated alleles. Strongest association with skin pigmentation at 19p13 was observed for an Y182H missense variant (common only in East Asians and Native Americans) in MFSD12, a gene recently associated with skin pigmentation in Africans. We show that the frequency of the derived allele at Y182H is significantly correlated with lower solar radiation intensity in East Asia and infer that MFSD12 was under selection in East Asians, probably after their split from Europeans.

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