Genomic inversions and GOLGA core duplicons underlie disease instability at the 15q25 locus.

ABSTRACT: Human chromosome 15q25 is involved in several disease-associated structural rearrangements, including microdeletions and chromosomal markers with inverted duplications. Using comparative fluorescence in situ hybridization, strand-sequencing, single-molecule, real-time sequencing and Bionano optical mapping analyses, we investigated the organization of the 15q25 region in human and nonhuman primates. We found that two independent inversions occurred in this region after the fission event that gave rise to phylogenetic chromosomes XIV and XV in humans and great apes. One of these inversions is still polymorphic in the human population today and may confer differential susceptibility to 15q25 microdeletions and inverted duplications. The inversion breakpoints map within segmental duplications

SUBMITTER: Maggiolini FAM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6436712 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature