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Diversity of Human Copy Number Variation and Multicopy Genes

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Sudmant, Peter H., Kitzman, Jacob O., Antonacci, Francesca, Alkan, Can, Malig, Maika, Tsalenko, Anya, Sampas, Nick, Bruhn, Laurakay +3 more·2010·Science

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Evolution, Gene Number, and Disease: Slight variations in the numbers of copies of genes influence human disease and other characters. Variants can be hard to detect when they lie in heavily duplicated and widely similar regions of sequence known as “dark matter.” Sudmant et al. (p. 641 ) have methods to tease apart the duplicated regions to reveal singly unique nucleotide identifiers. These have turned out to be among the most variable seen in different human population groups—most notably among genes for neurodevelopment and neurological diseases. Such polymorphisms can be genotyped with specificity and may help us understand how variation in copy number may affect human evolution and disease.

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  • Genic CNVs (mostly singletons) were assembled for 1,115 different protein-coding genes, confirming earlier mapping-based analyses that predicted the majority of rare genic CNVs occur outside known SDs.

    “In detail, we assembled genic CNVs (mostly singletons) for 1,115 different protein-coding genes, confirming earlier mapping-based analyses that predicted that the majority of rare genic CNVs occur outside known SDs31.”

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    The Results section (‘CNV landscape diversity’; page not provided) reports that CNVs outside segmental duplications were generally rare, while those overlapping duplications were usually more frequent. This supports the cited point about rarity and location, but the analysis concerns large CNVs generally; it does not establish that the majority of rare *genic* CNVs occur outside known segmental duplications. The cited paper also does not report the citing authors’ assembly of CNVs for 1,115 genes. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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Sudmant, P. H., Kitzman, J. O., Antonacci, F., Alkan, C., Malig, M., Tsalenko, A., Sampas, N., Bruhn, L., Shendure, J., 1000 Genomes Project, & Eichler, E. E.
Affiliations
  • University of Washington (US)
  • Agilent Technologies (United States) (US)
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
Corresponding author
  • Sudmant, Peter H.
  • Kitzman, Jacob O.
  • Eichler, Evan E.
Venue
Science
Published
2010-10-29
Volume
330
Issue
6004
Pages
641-646
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
OpenAlex
W2163809592
Cited by
667
References
34
Citations by year
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FWCI
39.79
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Civil War Book Review (submittedVersion)
  • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (submittedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
  • ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) (submittedVersion)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
  • CINECA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (University of Bari Aldo Moro) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
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Funders
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • Wellcome Trust (085532)
  • National Institute for Health and Care Research (NF-SI-0508-10212)
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (U54HG003067, P01HG004120, U54HG003273, HG004120)
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
copy number variation, multi-copy genes, gene duplication, paralogs, single nucleotide polymorphisms, gene conversion, brain development genes, population genetic variation, disease association
MeSH terms
Chromosome Mapping, Female, Gene Conversion, Gene Frequency, Genotype, Haplotypes, Humans, Male, Genetic Variation, Genome, Human, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Gene Dosage, Evolution, Molecular, Genes, Duplicate, Gene Duplication, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Genomics, Databases, Nucleic Acid, Racial Groups, DNA Copy Number Variations

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