| Literature DB >> 19956714 |
Jian Li1, Tielin Yang, Liang Wang, Han Yan, Yinping Zhang, Yan Guo, Feng Pan, Zhixin Zhang, Yumei Peng, Qi Zhou, Lina He, Xuezhen Zhu, Hongyi Deng, Shawn Levy, Christopher J Papasian, Betty M Drees, James J Hamilton, Robert R Recker, Jing Cheng, Hong-Wen Deng.
Abstract
Although copy number variation (CNV) has recently received much attention as a form of structure variation within the human genome, knowledge is still inadequate on fundamental CNV characteristics such as occurrence rate, genomic distribution and ethnic differentiation. In the present study, we used the Affymetrix GeneChip(R) Mapping 500K Array to discover and characterize CNVs in the human genome and to study ethnic differences of CNVs between Caucasians and Asians. Three thousand and nineteen CNVs, including 2381 CNVs in autosomes and 638 CNVs in X chromosome, from 985 Caucasian and 692 Asian individuals were identified, with a mean length of 296 kb. Among these CNVs, 190 had frequencies greater than 1% in at least one ethnic group, and 109 showed significant ethnic differences in frequencies (p<0.01). After merging overlapping CNVs, 1135 copy number variation regions (CNVRs), covering approximately 439 Mb (14.3%) of the human genome, were obtained. Our findings of ethnic differentiation of CNVs, along with the newly constructed CNV genomic map, extend our knowledge on the structural variation in the human genome and may furnish a basis for understanding the genomic differentiation of complex traits across ethnic groups.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19956714 PMCID: PMC2776354 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007958
Source DB: PubMed Journal: PLoS One ISSN: 1932-6203 Impact factor: 3.240
Characteristics of CNVs and CNVRs detected in Caucasian population and in Chinese population.
| Autosomes | X chromosome | |||
| CAU | CHI | CAU | CHI | |
| CNVs | ||||
| Total # of CNV calls | 9,196 | 6,858 | 1,318 | 1,232 |
| Total # of CNV calls with gain | 4,748 | 3,465 | 609 | 497 |
| Total # of CNV calls with loss | 4,448 | 3,393 | 709 | 735 |
| Total # of CNVs | 1,352 | 1,395 | 371 | 346 |
| Mean size of CNVs | 295 kb | 303 kb | 299 kb | 277 kb |
| Median size of CNVs | 195 kb | 196 kb | 202 kb | 193 kb |
| CNVRs | ||||
| Total # of CNVRs | 593 | 633 | 99 | 116 |
| Mean size of CNVRs | 361 kb | 345 kb | 493 kb | 418 kb |
| Median size of CNVRs | 229 kb | 218 kb | 242 kb | 214 kb |
| Mean # of Probes per CNVR | 58 | 52 | 36 | 30 |
| Median # of Probes per CNVR | 38 | 35 | 20 | 17 |
| Genome coverage by CNVRs | 215 Mb | 218 Mb | 49 Mb | 39 Mb |
| Genome coverage per individual | 2.1 Mb | 3.3 Mb | 192 kb | 255 kb |
Figure 1Characteristics of CNVs on autosomes.
(A) Distribution of CNV numbers per individual. (B) Distribution of CNV sizes.
Figure 2CNVR chromosomal coverage in CAU and in CHI.
The vertical axis is the proportion of a specific chromosome covered by CNVRs. The proportion ranges from ∼3% to ∼15% in CHI and from ∼5% to ∼11% in CAU on autosomes and an extensive difference on X chromosome.
Figure 3Genomic map for CNVs found in CAU and in CHI.
The figure was drawn by IdeogramBrowser [28]. Individual chromosomes are shown by the karyograms, with dots on the left and right sides of the karyograms indicating chromosomal locations of copy number losses and gains, respectively. For dots in the two columns on the same side of the karyograms, those closer to the karyograms represent CNVs detected in CAU, and those further away indicate CNVs detected in CHI. Blue bars with white space on the right side of the karyograms indicate locations of known genes, based on the database available when the analyses were performed.
Figure 4Distribution of CNV genes in 1677 individuals.