Genome-wide search of gene conversions in duplicated genes of mouse and rat

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作者
Ezawa, K [1 ]
OOta, S [1 ]
Saitou, N [1 ]
机构
[1] Natl Inst Genet, Div Populat Genet, Mishima, Shizuoka 411, Japan
关键词
gene conversion; duplicated genes; mouse; rat; genome-wide analysis;
D O I
10.1093/molbev/msj093
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Gene conversion is considered to play important roles in the formation of genomic makeup such as homogenization of multigene families and diversification of alleles. We devised two statistical tests on quartets for detecting gene conversion events. Each "quartet" consists of two pairs of orthologous sequences supposed to have been generated by a duplication event and a subsequent speciation of two closely related species. As example data, EnsEMBL mouse and rat cDNA sequences were used to obtain a genome-wide picture of gene conversion events. We extensively sampled 2,641 quartets that appear to have resulted from duplications after the divergence of primates and rodents and before mouse-rat speciation. Combination of our new tests with Sawyer's and Takahata's tests enhanced the detection sensitivity while keeping false positives as few as possible. About 18% (488 quartets) were shown to be highly positive for gene conversion using this combined test. Out of them, 340 (13% of the total) showed signs of gene conversion in mouse sequence pairs. Those gene conversion-positive gene pairs are mostly linked in the same chromosomes, with the proportion of positive pairs in the linked and unlinked categories being 15% and 1%, respectively. Statistical analyses showed that (1) the susceptibility to gene conversion correlates negatively with the physical distance, especially the frequency of 29% was observed for gene pairs whose distances are smaller than 55 kb; (2) the occurrence of gene conversions does not depend on the transcriptional direction; (3) small gene families consisting of between three and six contiguous genes are highly prone to gene conversion; and (4) frequency of gene conversions greatly varies depending on functional categories, and cadherins favor gene conversion, while vomeronasal receptors type 1 and immunoglobulin V-type proteins disfavor it. These findings will be useful to deepen the understanding of the roles of gene conversion.
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