Title
The Iberian legacy into a young genetic xeroderma pigmentosum cluster in central Brazil
Date Issued
01 April 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Castro L.P.
Sahbatou M.
Kehdy F.S.G.
Farias A.A.
Yurchenko A.A.
de Souza T.A.
Rosa R.C.A.
Mendes-Junior C.T.
Munford V.
Zanardo A.
Chehimi S.N.
Kulikowski L.D.
Aquino M.M.
Leal T.P.
Chaibub S.C.
Gener B.
Calmels N.
Laugel V.
Sarasin A.
Menck C.F.M.
National Laboratory for Scientific Computation (LNCC)
Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
In central Brazil, in the municipality of Faina (state of Goiás), the small and isolated village of Araras comprises a genetic cluster of xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) patients. The high level of consanguinity and the geographical isolation gave rise to a high frequency of XP patients. Recently, two founder events were identified affecting that community, with two independent mutations at the POLH gene, c.764 + 1 G > A (intron 6) and c.907 C > T; p.Arg303* (exon 8). These deleterious mutations lead to the xeroderma pigmentosum variant syndrome (XP-V). Previous reports identified both mutations in other countries: the intron 6 mutation in six patients (four families) from Northern Spain (Basque Country and Cantabria) and the exon 8 mutation in two patients from different families in Europe, one of them from Kosovo. In order to investigate the ancestry of the XP patients and the age for these mutations at Araras, we generated genotyping information for 22 XP-V patients from Brazil (16), Spain (6) and Kosovo (1). The local genomic ancestry and the shared haplotype segments among the patients showed that the intron 6 mutation at Araras is associated with an Iberian genetic legacy. All patients from Goiás, homozygotes for intron 6 mutation, share with the Spanish patients identical-by-descent (IBD) genomic segments comprising the mutation. The entrance date for the Iberian haplotype at the village was calculated to be approximately 200 years old. This result is in agreement with the historical arrival of Iberian individuals at the Goiás state (BR). Patients from Goiás and the three families from Spain share 1.8 cM (family 14), 1.7 cM (family 15), and a more significant segment of 4.7 cM within family 13. On the other hand, the patients carrying the exon 8 mutation do not share any specific genetic segment, indicating an old genetic distance between them or even no common ancestry.
Volume
852
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Genética, Herencia
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85081979836
PubMed ID
Source
Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis
ISSN of the container
13835718
Sponsor(s)
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP, São Paulo, Brazil, Grants #2013/08028-1 , #2014/15982-6 and #2018/24923-5 ), Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES, Brasília, Brazil, Funding Code 001) and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq, Brasília, Brazil, Grant # 308868/2018-8 ). FINEP/CT-INFRA-01/2011 Financier of Studies and Projects. LPC and AS are also thankful to the French XP association, “Les Enfants de La lune” (Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, France).
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