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Exome-wide survey of the Siberian Caucasian population | BMC Medical Genetics | Full Text

Exome-wide survey of the Siberian Caucasian population | BMC Medical Genetics | Full Text

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Exome-wide survey of the Siberian Caucasian population

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BMC Medical Genetics201920 (Suppl 1) :51
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Abstract

Background

Population structure is an important factor in the genetic association studies but often remains underexplored for many human populations. We identified exome variants in 39 Siberian Caucasian individuals from Novosibirsk, Russia and compared their genetic allele frequencies with European populations from 1000 Genomes Project.

Methods

The study participants were from Novosibirsk and represented people with monogenic diabetes, healthy individuals and a cohort from the tick-borne encephalitis study. Isolated DNA was enriched using Agilent SureSelect V5 kit and sequenced on Illumina HiSeq 4000 and genetic variants were identified using GATK pipeline. To estimate the patterns of the population structure we used PCA and ADMIXTURE analysis. Pharmocogenetically and medically important variants were annotated based on PharmGKB and ClinVar databases.

Results

The analysis identified low, but highly significant population differentiation attributed to numerous loci between the Siberian Caucasian population and other European population samples as well as a higher proportion of the Finnish genetic component in the studied sample. The medical and pharmacogenetic annotation of highly significantly differentiated variants between the Novosibirsk and the combined European populations revealed a number of important genetic polymorphisms located in such genes as FCGR3BTYROCA2FABP1CHEK2 and SLC4A1.

Conclusions

The study reports for the first time an exome-wide comparison of a population from Russia with European samples and emphasizes the importance of population studies with medical annotation of variants.

Keywords

  • Exome sequencing
  • Population structure
  • Associations
  • Siberia
  • Russia

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