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Recombination between heterologous human acrocentric chromosomes

2023; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 617; Issue: 7960 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/s41586-023-05976-y

1476-4687

Andrea Guarracino, Silvia Buonaiuto, Leonardo Gomes de Lima, Tamara Potapova, Arang Rhie, Sergey Koren, Boris Rubinstein, Christian Fischer, Haley Abel, Lucinda Antonacci-Fulton, Mobin Asri, Gunjan Baid, Carl Baker, Anastasiya Belyaeva, Konstantinos Billis, Guillaume Bourque, Andrew Carroll, Mark Chaisson, Pi-Chuan Chang, Xian Chang, Haoyu Cheng, Justin Chu, Sarah Cody, Daniel E. Cook, Robert Cook‐Deegan, Omar E. Cornejo, Mark Diekhans, Daniel Doerr, Peter Ebert, Jana Ebler, Evan E. Eichler, Jordan M. Eizenga, Susan Fairley, Olivier Fédrigo, Adam L. Felsenfeld, Xiaowen Feng, Paul Flicek, Giulio Formenti, Adam Frankish, Robert S. Fulton, Yan Gao, Shilpa Garg, Nanibaa’ A. Garrison, Carlos García Girón, Richard E. Green, Cristian Groza, Leanne Haggerty, Ira M. Hall, William T. Harvey, Marina Haukness, David Haussler, Simon Heumos, Glenn Hickey, Kendra Hoekzema, Thibaut Hourlier, Kerstin Howe, Miten Jain, Erich D. Jarvis, Hanlee P. Ji, Eimear E. Kenny, Barbara A. Koenig, Alexey Kolesnikov, Jan O. Korbel, Jennifer Kordosky, HoJoon Lee, Alexandra P. Lewis, Heng Li, Wen‐Wei Liao, Shuangjia Lu, Tsung-Yu Lu, Julian Lucas, Hugo Magalhães, Santiago Marco‐Sola, Pierre Marijon, Charles Markello, Tobias Marschall, Fergal J. Martin, Ann M. Mc Cartney, Jennifer McDaniel, Karen H. Miga, Matthew W. Mitchell, Jean Monlong, Jacquelyn Mountcastle, Katherine M. Munson, Moses Njagi Mwaniki, Maria Nattestad, Adam M. Novak, Sergey Nurk, Hugh E. Olsen, Nathan D. Olson, Benedict Paten, Trevor Pesout, Alice B. Popejoy, David Porubský, Pjotr Prins, Daniela Puiu, Mikko Rautiainen, Allison Regier, Samuel Sacco, Ashley D. Sanders, Valérie Schneider, Baergen I. Schultz, Kishwar Shafin, Jonas A. Sibbesen, Jouni Sirén, Michael W. Smith, Heidi J. Sofia, Ahmad Abou Tayoun, Françoise Thibaud-Nissen, Chad Tomlinson, Francesca Floriana Tricomi, Flavia Villani, Mitchell R. Vollger, Justin Wagner, Brian P. Walenz, Ting Wang, Jonathan Wood, Aleksey V. Zimin, Justin M. Zook, Jennifer L. Gerton, Adam M. Phillippy, Vincenza Colonna, Erik Garrison,

Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics

Abstract The short arms of the human acrocentric chromosomes 13, 14, 15, 21 and 22 (SAACs) share large homologous regions, including ribosomal DNA repeats and extended segmental duplications 1,2 . Although the resolution of these regions in the first complete assembly of a human genome—the Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium’s CHM13 assembly (T2T-CHM13)—provided a model of their homology 3 , it remained unclear whether these patterns were ancestral or maintained by ongoing recombination exchange. Here we show that acrocentric chromosomes contain pseudo-homologous regions (PHRs) indicative of recombination between non-homologous sequences. Utilizing an all-to-all comparison of the human pangenome from the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium 4 (HPRC), we find that contigs from all of the SAACs form a community. A variation graph 5 constructed from centromere-spanning acrocentric contigs indicates the presence of regions in which most contigs appear nearly identical between heterologous acrocentric chromosomes in T2T-CHM13. Except on chromosome 15, we observe faster decay of linkage disequilibrium in the pseudo-homologous regions than in the corresponding short and long arms, indicating higher rates of recombination 6,7 . The pseudo-homologous regions include sequences that have previously been shown to lie at the breakpoint of Robertsonian translocations 8 , and their arrangement is compatible with crossover in inverted duplications on chromosomes 13, 14 and 21. The ubiquity of signals of recombination between heterologous acrocentric chromosomes seen in the HPRC draft pangenome suggests that these shared sequences form the basis for recurrent Robertsonian translocations, providing sequence and population-based confirmation of hypotheses first developed from cytogenetic studies 50 years ago 9 .