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Background
Previous studies in Drosophila and mammals have revealed levels of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) sequence conservation that are intermediate between neutrally evolving and protein-coding sequence. These analyses compared conservation between species that diverged up to 75 million years ago. However, analysis of sequence polymorphisms within a species'' population can provide an understanding of essentially contemporaneous selective constraints that are acting on lncRNAs and can quantify the deleterious effect of mutations occurring within these loci.Results
We took advantage of polymorphisms derived from the genome sequences of 163 Drosophila melanogaster strains and 174 human individuals to calculate the distribution of fitness effects of single nucleotide polymorphisms occurring within intergenic lncRNAs and compared this to distributions for SNPs present within putatively neutral or protein-coding sequences. Our observations show that in D.melanogaster there is a significant excess of rare frequency variants within intergenic lncRNAs relative to neutrally evolving sequences, whereas selection on human intergenic lncRNAs appears to be effectively neutral. Approximately 30% of mutations within these fruitfly lncRNAs are estimated as being weakly deleterious.Conclusions
These contrasting results can be attributed to the large difference in effective population sizes between the two species. Our results suggest that while the sequences of lncRNAs will be well conserved across insect species, such loci in mammals will accumulate greater proportions of deleterious changes through genetic drift. 相似文献16.
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Bo Zhang XiaoYun Xing Jing Li Rebecca F Lowdon Yan Zhou Nan Lin Baoxue Zhang Vasavi Sundaram Katherine B Chiappinelli Ian S Hagemann David G Mutch Paul J Goodfellow Ting Wang 《BMC genomics》2014,15(1)
Background
Aberrant DNA methylation is a hallmark of many cancers. Classically there are two types of endometrial cancer, endometrioid adenocarcinoma (EAC), or Type I, and uterine papillary serous carcinoma (UPSC), or Type II. However, the whole genome DNA methylation changes in these two classical types of endometrial cancer is still unknown.Results
Here we described complete genome-wide DNA methylome maps of EAC, UPSC, and normal endometrium by applying a combined strategy of methylated DNA immunoprecipitation sequencing (MeDIP-seq) and methylation-sensitive restriction enzyme digestion sequencing (MRE-seq). We discovered distinct genome-wide DNA methylation patterns in EAC and UPSC: 27,009 and 15,676 recurrent differentially methylated regions (DMRs) were identified respectively, compared with normal endometrium. Over 80% of DMRs were in intergenic and intronic regions. The majority of these DMRs were not interrogated on the commonly used Infinium 450K array platform. Large-scale demethylation of chromosome X was detected in UPSC, accompanied by decreased XIST expression. Importantly, we discovered that the majority of the DMRs harbored promoter or enhancer functions and are specifically associated with genes related to uterine development and disease. Among these, abnormal methylation of transposable elements (TEs) may provide a novel mechanism to deregulate normal endometrium-specific enhancers derived from specific TEs.Conclusions
DNA methylation changes are an important signature of endometrial cancer and regulate gene expression by affecting not only proximal promoters but also distal enhancers.Electronic supplementary material
The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/1471-2164-15-868) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献18.
Chloe I. Bloom Christine M. Graham Matthew P. R. Berry Fotini Rozakeas Paul S. Redford Yuanyuan Wang Zhaohui Xu Katalin A. Wilkinson Robert J. Wilkinson Yvonne Kendrick Gilles Devouassoux Tristan Ferry Makoto Miyara Diane Bouvry Valeyre Dominique Guy Gorochov Derek Blankenship Mitra Saadatian Phillip Vanhems Huw Beynon Rama Vancheeswaran Melissa Wickremasinghe Damien Chaussabel Jacques Banchereau Virginia Pascual Ling-pei Ho Marc Lipman Anne O’Garra 《PloS one》2013,8(8)
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