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Human-specific loss of regulatory DNA and the evolution of human-specific traits
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Humans differ from other animals in many aspects of anatomy, physiology, and behaviour; however, the genotypic basis of most human-specific traits remains unknown. Recent whole-genome comparisons have made it possible to identify genes with elevated rates of amino acid change or divergent expression in humans, and non-coding sequences with accelerated base pair changes. Regulatory alterations may be particularly likely to produce phenotypic effects while preserving viability, and are known to underlie interesting evolutionary differences in other species. Here we identify molecular events particularly likely to produce significant regulatory changes in humans: complete deletion of sequences otherwise highly conserved between chimpanzees and other mammals. We confirm 510 such deletions in humans, which fall almost exclusively in non-coding regions and are enriched near genes involved in steroid hormone signalling and neural function. One deletion removes a sensory vibrissae and penile spine enhancer from the human androgen receptor (AR) gene, a molecular change correlated with anatomical loss of androgen-dependent sensory vibrissae and penile spines in the human lineage. Another deletion removes a forebrain subventricular zone enhancer near the tumour suppressor gene growth arrest and DNA-damage-inducible, gamma (GADD45G), a loss correlated with expansion of specific brain regions in humans. Deletions of tissue-specific enhancers may thus accompany both loss and gain traits in the human lineage, and provide specific examples of the kinds of regulatory alterations and inactivation events long proposed to have an important role in human evolutionary divergence.
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“Conversely, a systematic search for human-specific deletions compared with other primate genomes identified 510 such deletions in humans that fall almost exclusively in noncoding regions (McLean et al., 2011).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- McLean, C. Y., Reno, P. L., Pollen, A. A., Bassan, A. I., Capellini, T. D., Guenther, C., Indjeian, V. B., Lim, X., Menke, D. B., Schaar, B. T., Wenger, A. M., Bejerano, G., & Kingsley, D. M.
- Affiliations
- Stanford University (US)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- Corresponding author
- Bejerano, Gill
- Kingsley, David M.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2011-03
- Volume
- 471
- Issue
- 7337
- Pages
- 216-219
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- PMC
- PMC3071156
- OpenAlex
- W2103914320
- Cited by
- 535
- References
- 29
- Citations by year
- 2026: 23 · 2025: 32 · 2024: 31 · 2023: 37 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 31 · 2020: 48 · 2019: 26 · 2018: 35 · 2017: 35 · 2016: 46 · 2015: 44 · 2014: 42 · 2013: 33 · 2012: 36
- FWCI
- 48.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Digital Commons - PCOM (Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine) (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- National Institutes of Health (1f32hd062137-01)
- National Human Genome Research Institute (P50HG002568, R01HG005058)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD059862, 1 F32 HD062137-01, F32 HD062137)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Keywords
- human evolution, non-coding DNA, enhancers, androgen receptor, penile spines, GADD45G, brain size evolution, neural development, steroid hormone signaling, chimpanzee comparison, human-specific traits, regulatory mutations, penile anatomy, brain expansion
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Brain, Pan troglodytes, DNA, Enhancer Elements, Genetic, Biological Evolution, Humans, Male, Organ Specificity, Penis, Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid, Species Specificity, Genome, Human, Genes, Tumor Suppressor, Conserved Sequence, Sequence Deletion, Transgenes, Evolution, Molecular, DNA, Intergenic, Chromosomes, Mammalian, Human Characteristics, Mice
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