Mapping the human reference genome's missing sequence by three-way admixture in Latino genomes.

ABSTRACT: A principal obstacle to completing maps and analyses of the human genome involves the genome's "inaccessible" regions: sequences (often euchromatic and containing genes) that are isolated from the rest of the euchromatic genome by heterochromatin and other repeat-rich sequence. We describe a way to localize these sequences by using ancestry linkage disequilibrium in populations that derive ancestry from at least three continents, as is the case for Latinos. We used this approach to map the genomic locations of almost 20 megabases of sequence unlocalized or missing from the current human genome reference (NCBI Genome GRCh37)-a substantial fraction of the human genome's remaining unmapped sequence. We show that the genomic locations of most sequences that originated from fosmids and larger c

SUBMITTER: Genovese G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3971454 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature