| Literature DB >> 26912863 |
Corinne N Simonti1, Benjamin Vernot2, Lisa Bastarache3, Erwin Bottinger4, David S Carrell5, Rex L Chisholm6, David R Crosslin7, Scott J Hebbring8, Gail P Jarvik7, Iftikhar J Kullo9, Rongling Li10, Jyotishman Pathak11, Marylyn D Ritchie12, Dan M Roden13, Shefali S Verma14, Gerard Tromp15, Jeffrey D Prato3, William S Bush16, Joshua M Akey2, Joshua C Denny17, John A Capra18.
Abstract
Many modern human genomes retain DNA inherited from interbreeding with archaic hominins, such as Neandertals, yet the influence of this admixture on human traits is largely unknown. We analyzed the contribution of common Neandertal variants to over 1000 electronic health record (EHR)-derived phenotypes in ~28,000 adults of European ancestry. We discovered and replicated associations of Neandertal alleles with neurological, psychiatric, immunological, and dermatological phenotypes. Neandertal alleles together explained a significant fraction of the variation in risk for depression and skin lesions resulting from sun exposure (actinic keratosis), and individual Neandertal alleles were significantly associated with specific human phenotypes, including hypercoagulation and tobacco use. Our results establish that archaic admixture influences disease risk in modern humans, provide hypotheses about the effects of hundreds of Neandertal haplotypes, and demonstrate the utility of EHR data in evolutionary analyses.Entities:
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Year: 2016 PMID： 26912863 PMCID： PMC4849557 DOI： 10.1126/science.aad2149
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN： 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728