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Impact of Demographic History and Natural Selection on Human Genomic Diversity Sarah Tishkoff Departments of Genetics and Biology University of Pennsylvania

Impact of Demographic History and Natural Selection on Human Genomic Diversity · Ethnic groups differ for risk to disease. • People whose ancestors lived in distinct environments

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  • Impact of Demographic History and Natural Selection on Human Genomic Diversity

    Sarah TishkoffDepartments of Genetics and Biology

    University of Pennsylvania

  • •Mutation

    •Genetic Drift

    •Migration

    •Selection

    Evolutionary Forces Influencing Genetic Variation

  • 150-195

    80-105

    150-160

    50-80

    80-125

    140-150

    110-130

    110-12065-90

    80-105

    90-110(ages in Kya) 90-100

    Modern Human Fossil Record

  • Human Molecular Genetics, 3/e (©Garland Science 2004)

    Major Migration Routes

  • • Identical twins 0

    • Unrelated humans 1/1,000

    • Human vs. chimp 1/100

    • Human vs. mouse 1/30

    • Human vs. broccoli 2/3

    • 3 billion DNA bases 3 million differences between each pair of individuals (slide courtesy of Lynn Jorde)

    How much do we differ?

  • http://dariaburke.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/ethic-diversity-at-estee-lauder/

  • • There is also considerable structural variation across human genomes (insertions/deletions, gene duplications, and inversions)

    • More genetic variation within (~85%) relative to between populations (~15%)

    Genetic Diversity Within and Between Humans

  • The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African AmericansTishkoff et al. Science May 22;324(5930):1035-44. 2009

    1165 Microsatellite and In/Del Polymorphisms

    Genotyped in >2,500 Africans from 121 ethnic populations

    98 African Americans from four regions in the US

    >1,500 comparative non-African individuals

  • Diversity Levels are Highest in Africa

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    Sheet1

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    French5.7206133402

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    Lahu5.209570445

    Miao5.1828196319

    Maya5.1576421856

    Melanesian4.9600237226

    Papuan4.6431244128

    Columbian4.632777148

    Pima4.2854703522

    Karitiana3.9102788356

    Surui3.3453922844

    Sheet1

    African

    West, Central Eurasian

    Indian

    East Eurasian

    Oceanian

    Native American

    Populations

    Theta (V)

    Sheet2

    Sheet3

  • K K Global Patterns of Substructure and Ancestry

  • Genetic Variation and Structure in Africa

    Tishkoff, et alScience 2009

  • African American Ancestry

  • Source: David Eltis and David Richardson, Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

    Volume and Direction of the Transatlantic Slave Trade from Africa to the Americas

  • Genetic variation correlates with geography

    Bryc et al. PNAS, 2010

  • African Ancestry =__b__(a + b)

    a and b are the chord distances from the European and African centroids

    PCA-based admixture estimation

  • African ancestry

    Shared African and European ancestry

    European ancestry

    Representative African American Recent admixture

    High degree of European ancestryRecent European ancestry

    Local Genomic Ancestry in African Americans

  • • Under selection– Vitamin D– Folate– Melanoma

    Variation in Skin Pigmentation

  • Variation in Skin Pigmentation

    San

    N = 2200 for melanin

  • Anthropometric trait variation in Africa

  • Cardiovascular trait variation in Africa

  • Lipid biomarker variation in Africa

  • …AAGATAAT/GGTAGCTCC/GTG….

    Identification of novel genetic variants associated with lactose tolerance and lactase gene expression in African pastoralist populations

    136000000 136500000135500000

    MCM6 36.2 kb

    Intron 13

    C -13907G -13915C -14010

    Tishkoff et al, Nature Genetics, 2007

    Ranciaro et al., AJHG, 2014

    …CG/CTAAGTTACCA…….. C/T-14010 bp -13915 bp -13910 bp-13907 bp

  • Historically, biological classification of races has been associated with:

    •hierarchical ranking of races

    •biological determinism

    •Eugenics

    •justification for genocide (e.g. the Nazi-led holocaust)

    •colonialism, slavery, and other social inequities

    Problems with Racial Classifications

  • • Problem with using race as an identifier is the lack of a clear definition of race

    • Historically, race has been classified based on both socio-cultural and biological characteristics

    Race does not correlate with patterns of population structure inferred from genetic data

    Problems with Racial Classifications

  • •Ethnic groups differ for risk to disease.

    •People whose ancestors lived in distinct environments have been subject to different selection forces and have differing demographic histories.

    •Some diseases may be influenced by geographically restricted susceptibility alleles.

    •Information about individual ancestry could provide important medical information for diagnosis and treatment.

    Implications for Medicine

  • •However….one must be wary of racial profiling and ignorance of the continuous nature of genetic variation and high levels of admixture in modern populations, which can result in mis-classification and mis-diagnosis.

    •Cannot make generalizations based on continental region of origin because there can be tremendous variation amongst populations within a region (i.e. Africa).

    •Populations/ethnic groups differ in prevalence of disease due to both genetic and environmental factors and a key issue will be to disentangle these factors and to study their interaction.

    Implications for Medicine

  • •The goal should be personalized medicine—treating for the specific etiology in the individual patient.

    •Information about “Race” could be important if trying to distinguish socio-cultural and environmental risk factors

    •However, for many studies race will be an insufficient identifier and detailed information about ethnicity, geographic origin, language, religion and/or culture will be important.

    •“Ancestry” should supplant “race” in discussions where the group identity of the patient is at issue.

    Implications for Medicine

  • Tishkoff lab, University of PennsylvaniaMatt Hansen/ Nick Crawford/Joseph Lachance / Joe Jarvis / Laura Scheinfeldt / Sameer Soi / Clara Elbers / Bart Ferwerda / Bill Beggs / Simon Thompson / Alessia Ranciaro / Jibril Hirbo

    Illumina 5 M GWAS studyStephen Chanock/Meredith Yeager (NCI)

    African CollaboratorsSabah Omar / Muntaser Ibrahim / Thomas Nyambo / Godfrey Lema / Charles Wambebe/ Ogabara Doumbo / Mohamadu Thera/Gurja Belay/Dawit WoldeSabahOmar / Muntaser Ibrahim / Thomas Nyambo / Godfrey Lema / Charles Wambebe/ Ogabara Doumbo / Mohamadu Thera/Gurja Belay/Dawit Wolde

    NIGMS NHGRI

    Thanks

    National Cancer Institute

    National Institute of Aging

    Population Studies Center at Penn

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