Cited by 228Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalitiesGenome Rearrangement AlgorithmsChromosomal and Genetic Variations

Evolutionary toggling of the MAPT 17q21.31 inversion region

Open access
Zody, Michael C, Jiang, Zhaoshi, Fung, Hon-Chung, Antonacci, Francesca, Hillier, LaDeana W, Cardone, Maria Francesca, Graves, Tina A, Kidd, Jeffrey M +12 more·2008·Nature Genetics

Abstract

Using comparative sequencing approaches, we investigated the evolutionary history of the European-enriched 17q21.31 MAPT inversion polymorphism. We present a detailed, BAC-based sequence assembly of the inverted human H2 haplotype and compare it to the sequence structure and genetic variation of the corresponding 1.5-Mb region for the noninverted H1 human haplotype and that of chimpanzee and orangutan. We found that inversion of the MAPT region is similarly polymorphic in other great ape species, and we present evidence that the inversions occurred independently in chimpanzees and humans. In humans, the inversion breakpoints correspond to core duplications with the LRRC37 gene family. Our analysis favors the H2 configuration and sequence haplotype as the likely great ape and human ancestral state, with inversion recurrences during primate evolution. We show that the H2 architecture has evolved more extensive sequence homology, perhaps explaining its tendency to undergo microdeletion associated with mental retardation in European populations.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1038/ng.193

Cites

46 of 46 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Zody, M. C., Jiang, Z., Fung, H.-C., Antonacci, F., Hillier, L. W., Cardone, M. F., Graves, T. A., Kidd, J. M., Cheng, Z., Abouelleil, A., Chen, L., Wallis, J., Glasscock, J., Wilson, R. K., Reily, A. D., Duckworth, J., Ventura, M., Hardy, J., Warren, W. C., & Eichler, E. E.
Affiliations
  • Broad Institute (US)
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
  • Chang Gung University (TW)
  • Washington University in St. Louis (US)
  • University of Bari Aldo Moro (IT)
  • National Institutes of Health (US)
  • UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology (GB)
Corresponding author
  • Warren, Wesley C
  • Eichler, Evan E
Venue
Nature Genetics
Published
2008-08-10
Volume
40
Issue
9
Pages
1076-1083
ISSN
  • 1061-4036 (ISSN-L)
  • 1546-1718
OpenAlex
W2020079665
Cited by
227
References
45
Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 16 · 2014: 15 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 21
FWCI
9.33
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature Genetics (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
  • CINECA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (University of Bari Aldo Moro) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute on Aging (Z01AG000957)
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (HG002385, R01HG002385)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (GM 058815, R01GM058815)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genome Rearrangement Algorithms
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
Keywords
MAPT, chromosomal inversions, H2 haplotype, H1 haplotype, inversion polymorphism, great apes, chimpanzees, orangutans, ancestral state reconstruction, inversion breakpoints, sequence homology, microdeletion, intellectual disability, European populations
MeSH terms
Animals, Base Sequence, Pan troglodytes, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17, Humans, Chromosome Inversion, Models, Biological, Molecular Sequence Data, Phylogeny, Polymorphism, Genetic, Pongo pygmaeus, tau Proteins, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Evolution, Molecular, Gene Duplication

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review