Single-nucleotide polymorphism, linkage disequilibrium and geographic structure in the malaria parasite <it>Plasmodium vivax</it>: prospects for genome-wide association studies
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The ideal malaria parasite populations for initial mapping of genomic regions contributing to phenotypes such as drug resistance and virulence, through genome-wide association studies, are those with high genetic diversity, allowing...
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| author | Gunawardena Sharmini Socheat Duong Fairhust Rick M Sá Juliana M Amaratunga Chanaki Gonçalves Raquel M Scopel Kézia KG da Silva Natal S da Silva-Nunes Mônica Karunaweera Nadira D Orjuela-Sánchez Pamela Thavakodirasah Thuraisamy Galapaththy Gawrie LN Abeysinghe Rabindra Kawamoto Fumihiko Wirth Dyann F Ferreira Marcelo U |
| author_facet | Gunawardena Sharmini Socheat Duong Fairhust Rick M Sá Juliana M Amaratunga Chanaki Gonçalves Raquel M Scopel Kézia KG da Silva Natal S da Silva-Nunes Mônica Karunaweera Nadira D Orjuela-Sánchez Pamela Thavakodirasah Thuraisamy Galapaththy Gawrie LN Abeysinghe Rabindra Kawamoto Fumihiko Wirth Dyann F Ferreira Marcelo U |
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| description | <p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The ideal malaria parasite populations for initial mapping of genomic regions contributing to phenotypes such as drug resistance and virulence, through genome-wide association studies, are those with high genetic diversity, allowing for numerous informative markers, and rare meiotic recombination, allowing for strong linkage disequilibrium (LD) between markers and phenotype-determining loci. However, levels of genetic diversity and LD in field populations of the major human malaria parasite <it>P. vivax </it>remain little characterized.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>We examined single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and LD patterns across a 100-kb chromosome segment of <it>P. vivax </it>in 238 field isolates from areas of low to moderate malaria endemicity in South America and Asia, where LD tends to be more extensive than in holoendemic populations, and in two monkey-adapted strains (Salvador-I, from El Salvador, and Belem, from Brazil). We found varying levels of SNP diversity and LD across populations, with the highest diversity and strongest LD in the area of lowest malaria transmission. We found several clusters of contiguous markers with rare meiotic recombination and characterized a relatively conserved haplotype structure among populations, suggesting the existence of recombination hotspots in the genome region analyzed. Both silent and nonsynonymous SNPs revealed substantial between-population differentiation, which accounted for ~40% of the overall genetic diversity observed. Although parasites clustered according to their continental origin, we found evidence for substructure within the Brazilian population of <it>P. vivax</it>. We also explored between-population differentiation patterns revealed by loci putatively affected by natural selection and found marked geographic variation in frequencies of nucleotide substitutions at the <it>pvmdr-1 </it>locus, putatively associated with drug resistance.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>These findings support the feasibility of genome-wide association studies in carefully selected populations of <it>P. vivax</it>, using relatively low densities of markers, but underscore the risk of false positives caused by population structure at both local and regional levels.</p> <p>See commentary: <url>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/8/90</url></p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b061d387e4f74f97aa59fa698f6c571a2022-12-22T03:34:58ZengBMCBMC Genetics1471-21562010-07-011116510.1186/1471-2156-11-65Single-nucleotide polymorphism, linkage disequilibrium and geographic structure in the malaria parasite <it>Plasmodium vivax</it>: prospects for genome-wide association studiesGunawardena SharminiSocheat DuongFairhust Rick MSá Juliana MAmaratunga ChanakiGonçalves Raquel MScopel Kézia KGda Silva Natal Sda Silva-Nunes MônicaKarunaweera Nadira DOrjuela-Sánchez PamelaThavakodirasah ThuraisamyGalapaththy Gawrie LNAbeysinghe RabindraKawamoto FumihikoWirth Dyann FFerreira Marcelo U<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The ideal malaria parasite populations for initial mapping of genomic regions contributing to phenotypes such as drug resistance and virulence, through genome-wide association studies, are those with high genetic diversity, allowing for numerous informative markers, and rare meiotic recombination, allowing for strong linkage disequilibrium (LD) between markers and phenotype-determining loci. However, levels of genetic diversity and LD in field populations of the major human malaria parasite <it>P. vivax </it>remain little characterized.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>We examined single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and LD patterns across a 100-kb chromosome segment of <it>P. vivax </it>in 238 field isolates from areas of low to moderate malaria endemicity in South America and Asia, where LD tends to be more extensive than in holoendemic populations, and in two monkey-adapted strains (Salvador-I, from El Salvador, and Belem, from Brazil). We found varying levels of SNP diversity and LD across populations, with the highest diversity and strongest LD in the area of lowest malaria transmission. We found several clusters of contiguous markers with rare meiotic recombination and characterized a relatively conserved haplotype structure among populations, suggesting the existence of recombination hotspots in the genome region analyzed. Both silent and nonsynonymous SNPs revealed substantial between-population differentiation, which accounted for ~40% of the overall genetic diversity observed. Although parasites clustered according to their continental origin, we found evidence for substructure within the Brazilian population of <it>P. vivax</it>. We also explored between-population differentiation patterns revealed by loci putatively affected by natural selection and found marked geographic variation in frequencies of nucleotide substitutions at the <it>pvmdr-1 </it>locus, putatively associated with drug resistance.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>These findings support the feasibility of genome-wide association studies in carefully selected populations of <it>P. vivax</it>, using relatively low densities of markers, but underscore the risk of false positives caused by population structure at both local and regional levels.</p> <p>See commentary: <url>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/8/90</url></p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/11/65 |
| spellingShingle | Gunawardena Sharmini Socheat Duong Fairhust Rick M Sá Juliana M Amaratunga Chanaki Gonçalves Raquel M Scopel Kézia KG da Silva Natal S da Silva-Nunes Mônica Karunaweera Nadira D Orjuela-Sánchez Pamela Thavakodirasah Thuraisamy Galapaththy Gawrie LN Abeysinghe Rabindra Kawamoto Fumihiko Wirth Dyann F Ferreira Marcelo U Single-nucleotide polymorphism, linkage disequilibrium and geographic structure in the malaria parasite <it>Plasmodium vivax</it>: prospects for genome-wide association studies BMC Genetics |
| title | Single-nucleotide polymorphism, linkage disequilibrium and geographic structure in the malaria parasite <it>Plasmodium vivax</it>: prospects for genome-wide association studies |
| title_full | Single-nucleotide polymorphism, linkage disequilibrium and geographic structure in the malaria parasite <it>Plasmodium vivax</it>: prospects for genome-wide association studies |
| title_fullStr | Single-nucleotide polymorphism, linkage disequilibrium and geographic structure in the malaria parasite <it>Plasmodium vivax</it>: prospects for genome-wide association studies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Single-nucleotide polymorphism, linkage disequilibrium and geographic structure in the malaria parasite <it>Plasmodium vivax</it>: prospects for genome-wide association studies |
| title_short | Single-nucleotide polymorphism, linkage disequilibrium and geographic structure in the malaria parasite <it>Plasmodium vivax</it>: prospects for genome-wide association studies |
| title_sort | single nucleotide polymorphism linkage disequilibrium and geographic structure in the malaria parasite it plasmodium vivax it prospects for genome wide association studies |
| url | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/11/65 |
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