| Literature DB >> 24763138 |
Iñigo Olalde1, Federico Sánchez-Quinto1, Debayan Datta2, Urko M Marigorta1, Charleston W K Chiang3, Juan Antonio Rodríguez1, Marcos Fernández-Callejo1, Irene González2, Magda Montfort2, Laura Matas-Lalueza1, Sergi Civit4, Donata Luiselli5, Philippe Charlier6, Davide Pettener5, Oscar Ramírez1, Arcadi Navarro7, Heinz Himmelbauer2, Tomàs Marquès-Bonet8, Carles Lalueza-Fox1.
Abstract
A pyrographically decorated gourd, dated to the French Revolution period, has been alleged to contain a handkerchief dipped into the blood of the French king Louis XVI (1754-1793) after his beheading but recent analyses of living males from two Bourbon branches cast doubts on its authenticity. We sequenced the complete genome of the DNA contained in the gourd at low coverage (~2.5×) with coding sequences enriched at a higher ~7.3× coverage. We found that the ancestry of the gourd's genome does not seem compatible with Louis XVI's known ancestry. From a functional perspective, we did not find an excess of alleles contributing to height despite being described as the tallest person in Court. In addition, the eye colour prediction supported brown eyes, while Louis XVI had blue eyes. This is the first draft genome generated from a person who lived in a recent historical period; however, our results suggest that this sample may not correspond to the alleged king.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24763138 PMCID: PMC3998215 DOI: 10.1038/srep04666
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Sci Rep ISSN: 2045-2322 Impact factor: 4.379
Figure 1A pyrographically decorated gourd supposed to contain the blood of the king Louis XVI (image and copyright by Davide Pettener).
Figure 2Metagenomics analysis and species composition of the gourd's sample.
Figure 3Principal component analysis (PCA) of the gourd's genome SNP data at >9× coverage and compared to European individuals of the 1000 Genomes Project.
The analysis was based on 47 randomly selected individuals per population (FINS, CEU, GBR, TSI), except for the Iberians, where all six available individuals were included. A total of 32,701 SNPs were included after filtering for heterozygous positions in order to account for the background contamination.
Figure 4(a) PCA of the merged POPRES dataset and the gourd's genome data. For POPRES individuals, abbreviations and colors for each sample follow conventions of a previously published analysis24 in which two letter codes represent population identifiers. The black dot represents the individual data from the gourd's genome. A total of 101,107 SNPs (>3× coverage) were included. (b) PCA of the merged POPRES and 30 randomly composite genomes generated from the known ancestry of Louis XVI at the great-great grandparents generation. For POPRES individuals, abbreviations and colors for each sample follow conventions of a previously published analysis24 in which two letter codes represent population identifiers. Composite individuals are represented by uppercase C. A total of 196,526 SNPs were included.
Number of SNPs considered for the analysis for each complex phenotype, selected on the grounds of historical accounts about the king Louis XVI
| Phenotype | SNPs in GWAS catalog | Recaptured SNPs | After filtering SNPs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Height | 357 | 125 | 23 |
| Obesity | 112 | 58 | -- |
| Type 2 Diabetes | 114 | 59 | -- |
Height associated SNPs ascertained for the phenotype inference analysis from the gourd's genome. The allelic load column represents the number of height increase alleles for that SNP that our individual carries. EAF (“Effect Allele Frequency”) is the allele that exerts an increase in cm in height. The allelic load can be 0, 1 or 2 depending if the individual carries none, one copy or two copies of the EAF allele, respectively. Mean refers to mean in height of the individuals analyzed and SD is the standard deviation
| chr. | region | position | pubmed ID | SNP | EAF | Beta/Allele (cm) | pvalue | mean | SD | gourd's DNA allelic load |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 12p12.2 | 20758613 | 18391951 | rs11611208 | 0.067 | 0.76 | 2e-06 | 177.68 | 6.7 | 0 |
| 3 | 3q23 | 141102833 | 18391951 | rs6763931 | 0.572 | 0.496 | 1e-27 | 177.68 | 6.7 | 0 |
| 15 | 15q25.2 | 84573041 | 20397748 | rs7183263 | 0.496 | 0.484 | 4e-07 | 178.4 | 6.92 | 0 |
| 6 | 6p24.3 | 7720059 | 18391951 | rs12198986 | 0.509 | 0.455 | 2e-11 | 177.68 | 6.7 | 0 |
| 1 | 1q24.3 | 172189889 | 18391951 | rs678962 | 0.885 | 0.361 | 3e-08 | 177.68 | 6.7 | 0 |
| 6 | 6q22.32 | 126835655 | 18391951 | rs1490388 | 0.571 | 0.321 | 6e-07 | 177.68 | 6.7 | 0 |
| 6 | 6p22.3 | 17699322 | 18391951 | rs12199222 | 0.257 | 0.295 | 7e-07 | 177.68 | 6.7 | 0 |
| 12 | 12p12.2 | 20857467 | 20881960 | rs10770705 | 0.367 | 0.205 | 8e-18 | 175.53 | 6.8 | 0 |
| 12 | 12p13.2 | 11855773 | 20881960 | rs2856321 | 0.397 | 0.205 | 5e-15 | 175.53 | 6.8 | 0 |
| 4 | 4q12 | 57823476 | 20881960 | rs17081935 | 0.169 | 0.205 | 4e-11 | 175.53 | 6.8 | 0 |
| 9 | 9q22.31 | 95429120 | 20881960 | rs9969804 | 0.432 | 0.205 | 8e-17 | 175.53 | 6.8 | 0 |
| 1 | 1p36.33 | 2069172 | 20881960 | rs425277 | 0.239 | 0.135 | 2e-08 | 175.53 | 6.8 | 0 |
| 4 | 4p15.31 | 17944840 | 18391952 | rs16896068 | 0.881 | 0.47 | 2e-13 | 175.37 | 6.83 | 1 |
| 3 | 3q21.3 | 129050756 | 20881960 | rs6439167 | 0.212 | 0.205 | 9e-15 | 175.53 | 6.8 | 2 |
| 15 | 15q23 | 70048157 | 20881960 | rs10152591 | 0.903 | 0.272 | 3e-10 | 175.53 | 6.8 | 2 |
| 1 | 1q42.13 | 227797950 | 18391952 | rs1390401 | 0.754 | 0.273 | 5e-09 | 175.37 | 6.83 | 2 |
| 15 | 15q25.2 | 84315884 | 18391951 | rs2554380 | 0.83 | 0.301 | 9e-07 | 177.68 | 6.7 | 2 |
| 8 | 8q24.21 | 130725665 | 20881960 | rs6470764 | 0.798 | 0.34 | 2e-28 | 175.53 | 6.8 | 2 |
| 18 | 18q21.1 | 46991160 | 18391952 | rs8099594 | 0.602 | 0.34 | 3e-07 | 175.37 | 6.83 | 2 |
| 7 | 7p22.3 | 2763102 | 18391951 | rs798544 | 0.699 | 0.39 | 7e-15 | 177.68 | 6.7 | 2 |
| 2 | 2q35 | 219943846 | 18391952 | rs6724465 | 0.894 | 0.41 | 2e-08 | 175.37 | 6.83 | 2 |
| 4 | 4q31.21 | 145643079 | 18391952 | rs6854783 | 0.549 | 0.41 | 2e-09 | 175.37 | 6.83 | 2 |
| 18 | 18q11.2 | 20724328 | 18391951 | rs4800148 | 0.761 | 0.43 | 4e-09 | 177.68 | 6.7 | 2 |