Haplotypes of single cancer driver genes and their local ancestry in a highly admixed long-lived population of Northeast Brazil



Document title: Haplotypes of single cancer driver genes and their local ancestry in a highly admixed long-lived population of Northeast Brazil
Journal: Genetics and molecular biology
Database: PERIÓDICA
System number: 000459213
ISSN: 1415-4757
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Institutions: 1Universidade Estadual da Paraiba, Nucleo de Estudos em Generica e Educacao, Campina Grande, Paraiba. Brasil
2Universidade de Sao Paulo, Departamento de Genetica e Biologia Evolutiva, Sao Paulo. Brasil
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Volumen: 45
Number: 1
Country: Brasil
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Analítico, descriptivo
English abstract Admixed populations have not been examined in detail in cancer genetic studies. Here, we inferred the local ancestry of cancer-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and haplotypes of a highly admixed Brazilian population. SNP array was used to genotype 73 unrelated individuals aged 80-102 years. Local ancestry inference was performed by merging genotyped regions with phase three data from the 1000 Genomes Project Consortium using RFmix. The average ancestry tract length was 9.12-81.71 megabases. Strong linkage disequilibrium was detected in 48 haplotypes containing 35 SNPs in 10 cancer driver genes. All together, 19 risk and eight protective alleles were identified in 23 out of 48 haplotypes. Homozygous individuals were mainly of European ancestry, whereas heterozygotes had at least one Native American and one African ancestry tract. Native-American ancestry for homozygous individuals with risk alleles for HNF1B, CDH1, and BRCA1 was inferred for the first time. Results indicated that analysis of SNP polymorphism in the present admixed population has a high potential to identify new ancestry-associated alleles and haplotypes that modify cancer susceptibility differentially in distinct human populations. Future case-control studies with populations with a complex history of admixture could help elucidate ancestry-associated biological differences in cancer incidence and therapeutic outcomes
Disciplines: Biología,
Medicina
Keyword: Genética,
Oncología,
Polimorfismos de nucleótido único (SNPs),
Brasil,
Cáncer,
Herencia,
Haplotipos
Keyword: Genetics,
Oncology,
Inheritance,
Cancer,
Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs),
Haplotypes
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