Visualization of distinct DNA regions of the modern human relatively to a neanderthal genome

Diogo Pratas*, Morteza Hosseini, Raquel M. Silva, Armando J. Pinho, Paulo J. S. G. Ferreira

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Species-specific DNA regions are segments that are unique or share high dissimilarity relatively to close species. Their discovery is important, because they allow the localization of evolutionary traits that are often related to novel functionalities and, sometimes, diseases. We have detected distinct DNA regions specific in the modern human, when compared to a Neanderthal high-quality genome sequence obtained from a bone of a Siberian woman. The bone is around 50,000 years old and the DNA raw data totalizes more than 418 GB. Since the data size required for localizing efficiently such events is very high, it is not practical to store the model on a table or hash table. Thus, we propose a probabilistic method to map and visualize those regions. The time complexity of the method is linear. The computational tool is available at http://pratas.github.io/chester. The results, computed in approximately two days using a single CPU core, show several regions with documented neanderthal absent regions, namely genes associated with the brain (neurotransmiters and synapses), hearing, blood, fertility and the immune system. However, it also shows several undocumented regions, that may express new functions linked with the evolution of the modern human.
Idioma originalEnglish
Título da publicação do anfitriãoPattern Recognition and Image Analysis - 8th Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2017, Proceedings
EditoresJose Salvador Sanchez, Luis A. Alexandre, João M. F. Rodrigues
EditoraSpringer Verlag
Páginas235-242
Número de páginas8
ISBN (impresso)9783319588377, 9783319588384
DOIs
Estado da publicaçãoPublicado - 2017
Publicado externamenteSim
Evento8th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPRIA 2017 - Faro
Duração: 20 jun. 201723 jun. 2017

Série de publicação

NomeLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10255 LNCS
ISSN (impresso)0302-9743
ISSN (eletrónico)1611-3349

Conferência

Conferência8th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPRIA 2017
País/TerritórioPortugal
CidadeFaro
Período20/06/1723/06/17

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