| Literature DB >> 35393595 |
Manfei Zhang1,2,3, Sijie Wu1,2,4, Siyuan Du2, Wei Qian1,2,3, Jieyi Chen2,4, Lu Qiao2, Yajun Yang4, Jingze Tan4, Ziyu Yuan5, Qianqian Peng2, Yu Liu2, Nicolas Navarro6,7, Kun Tang2, Andrés Ruiz-Linares1,4,8,9, Jiucun Wang1,5, Peter Claes10,11,12,13, Li Jin14,15,16, Jiarui Li17,18,19, Sijia Wang20,21,22.
Abstract
Facial morphology-a conspicuous feature of human appearance-is highly heritable. Previous studies on the genetic basis of facial morphology were performed mainly in European-ancestry cohorts (EUR). Applying a data-driven phenotyping and multivariate genome-wide scanning protocol to a large collection of three-dimensional facial images of individuals with East Asian ancestry (EAS), we identified 244 variants in 166 loci (62 new) associated with typical-range facial variation. A newly proposed polygenic shape analysis indicates that the effects of the variants on facial shape in EAS can be generalized to EUR. Based on this, we further identified 13 variants related to differences between facial shape in EUR and EAS populations. Evolutionary analyses suggest that the difference in nose shape between EUR and EAS populations is caused by a directional selection, due mainly to a local adaptation in Europeans. Our results illustrate the underlying genetic basis for facial differences across populations.Entities:
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Year: 2022 PMID: 35393595 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-022-01038-7
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Genet ISSN: 1061-4036 Impact factor: 38.330