AT-rich Repeats Associated with Chromosome 22q11.2 Rearrangement Disorders Shape Human Genome Architecture on Yq12

Overview

Journal Genome Res

Specialty Genetics

Date 2007 Feb 8

PMID 17284672

Citations 16

Authors

Melanie Babcock

Svetlana Yatsenko

Pawel Stankiewicz

James R Lupski

Bernice E Morrow

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Abstract

Low copy repeats (LCRs; segmental duplications) constitute approximately 5% of the sequenced human genome. Nonallelic homologous recombination events between LCRs during meiosis can lead to chromosomal rearrangements responsible for many genomic disorders. The 22q11.2 region is susceptible to recurrent and nonrecurrent deletions, duplications as well as translocations that are mediated by LCRs termed LCR22s. One particular DNA structural element, a palindromic AT-rich repeat (PATRR) present within LCR22-3a, is responsible for translocations. Similar AT-rich repeats are present within the two largest LCR22s, LCR22-2 and LCR22-4. We provide direct sequence evidence that the AT-rich repeats have altered LCR22 organization during primate evolution. The AT-rich repeats are surrounded by a subtype of human satellite I (HSAT I), and an AluSc element, forming a 2.4-kb tripartite structure. Besides 22q11.2, FISH and PCR mapping localized the tripartite repeat within heterochromatic, unsequenced regions of the genome, including the pericentromeric regions of the acrocentric chromosomes and the heterochromatic portion of Yq12 in humans. The repeat is also present on autosomes but not on chromosome Y in other hominoid species, suggesting that it has duplicated on Yq12 after speciation of humans from its common ancestor. This demonstrates that AT-rich repeats have shaped or altered the structure of the genome during evolution.

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