Evolution of introns and exons of class?II major histocompatibility complex genes of vertebrates |
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Authors: | A L Hughes |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Biology and Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA, US |
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Abstract: | The phylogenetic relationships and patterns of nucleotide substitution were compared for introns and exons of class II major
histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes in three datasets: human DRB1, human DQA1, and cyprinid fish DAB1. In both human DRB1 and cyprinid DAB1, there was strong evidence that recombination events between alleles have occurred in such a way that intron and exon sequences
of a given allele do not necessarily share the same evolutionary history. In the case of human DRB1, recombination was found to have homogenized intron 1 and intron 2 sequences relative to exon 2 sequences within lineages
of alleles but not between lineages. As a result, mean divergence times of intron sequences are much more recent than those
of exonic sequences. Thus, the divergence time of DRB1 introns cannot be used to date that of exons in the same alleles, and the hypothesis that most human DRB1 polymorphism is of very recent origin is not supported.
Received: 5 September 1999 / Revised: 30 December 1999 |
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Keywords: | Balancing selection Class II MHC Intron evolution Major histocompatibility complex Recombination |
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