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To determine whether megabase-scale variation in human genetic diversity is driven primarily by differences in mutation rates or natural selection linked to recombination.

September 1, 2005Genome ResearchOpen Access

Why do human diversity levels vary at a megabase scale?

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IHInes HellmannGenomics (United Kingdom)KPKay PrüferMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology HJHongkai JiJohns Hopkins University

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Genomic analysis reveals that recombination rates predict diversity and divergence in human and chimpanzee genomes, suggesting rapid evolution of recombination landscapes.

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To determine whether megabase-scale variation in human genetic diversity is driven primarily by differences in mutation rates or natural selection linked to recombination.
Compared newly estimated human diversity metrics against the chimpanzee reference genome sequence.
Evaluated the predictive effects of GC content, CpG content, simple-repeat structures, and distance from centromeres and telomeres.
Analyzed pedigree-derived large-scale recombination rates while controlling for sequence composition and human-chimpanzee divergence.
GC content, CpG content, simple repeats, and proximity to centromeres and telomeres significantly predicted both within-human diversity and human-chimpanzee divergence.
Large-scale recombination rates remained significant positive predictors of human diversity and interspecies divergence after adjusting for genomic sequence features.
Human diversity remained significantly correlated with recombination rate after controlling for human-chimpanzee divergence, supporting rapid evolutionary shifts in recombination hotspots.

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Hellmann et al. (2005) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0eec79fca5c6c9f447ab5a https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.3461105

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Genomic analysis reveals that recombination rates predict diversity and divergence in human and chimpanzee genomes, suggesting rapid evolution of recombination landscapes.

Why do human diversity levels vary at a megabase scale?

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