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A time transect of exomes from a Native American population before and after European contact

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Communications, November 2016
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Title
A time transect of exomes from a Native American population before and after European contact
Published in
Nature Communications, November 2016
DOI 10.1038/ncomms13175
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John Lindo, Emilia Huerta-Sánchez, Shigeki Nakagome, Morten Rasmussen, Barbara Petzelt, Joycelynn Mitchell, Jerome S. Cybulski, Eske Willerslev, Michael DeGiorgio, Ripan S. Malhi

Abstract

A major factor for the population decline of Native Americans after European contact has been attributed to infectious disease susceptibility. To investigate whether a pre-existing genetic component contributed to this phenomenon, here we analyse 50 exomes of a continuous population from the Northwest Coast of North America, dating from before and after European contact. We model the population collapse after European contact, inferring a 57% reduction in effective population size. We also identify signatures of positive selection on immune-related genes in the ancient but not the modern group, with the strongest signal deriving from the human leucocyte antigen (HLA) gene HLA-DQA1. The modern individuals show a marked frequency decrease in the same alleles, likely due to the environmental change associated with European colonization, whereby negative selection may have acted on the same gene after contact. The evident shift in selection pressures correlates to the regional European-borne epidemics of the 1800s.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 5 2%
Brazil 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Unknown 229 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 63 26%
Researcher 45 19%
Student > Bachelor 29 12%
Student > Master 22 9%
Professor 11 5%
Other 34 14%
Unknown 36 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 78 33%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 58 24%
Social Sciences 21 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 12 5%
Environmental Science 5 2%
Other 24 10%
Unknown 42 18%
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