Title
The immunogenetic diversity of the HLA system in Mexico correlates with underlying population genetic structure
Date Issued
01 September 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Barquera R.
Hernández-Zaragoza D.I.
Bravo-Acevedo A.
Arrieta-Bolaños E.
Clayton S.
Acuña-Alonzo V.
Martínez-Álvarez J.C.
López-Gil C.
Adalid-Sáinz C.
Vega-Martínez M.d.R.
Escobedo-Ruíz A.
Juárez-Cortés E.D.
Immel A.
Pacheco-Ubaldo H.
González-Medina L.
Lona-Sánchez A.
Lara-Riegos J.
Sánchez-Fernández M.G.d.J.
Díaz-López R.
Guizar-López G.U.
Medina-Escobedo C.E.
Arrazola-García M.A.
Montiel-Hernández G.D.
Hernández-Hernández O.
Ramos-de la Cruz F.d.R.
Juárez-Nicolás F.
Pantoja-Torres J.A.
Rodríguez-Munguía T.J.
Juárez-Barreto V.
Delgado-Aguirre H.
Escutia-González A.B.
Goné-Vázquez I.
Benítez-Arvizu G.
Arellano-Prado F.P.
García-Arias V.E.
Rodríguez-López M.E.
Méndez-Mani P.
García-Álvarez R.
González-Martínez M.d.R.
Aquino-Rubio G.
Escareño-Montiel N.
Vázquez-Castillo T.V.
Uribe-Duarte M.G.
Ruíz-Corral M.d.J.
Ortega-Yáñez A.
Bernal-Felipe N.
Gómez-Navarro B.
Arriaga-Perea A.J.
Martínez-Bezies V.
Macías-Medrano R.M.
Aguilar-Campos J.A.
Solís-Martínez R.
Serrano-Osuna R.
Sandoval-Sandoval M.J.
Jaramillo-Rodríguez Y.
Salgado-Adame A.
Juárez-de la Cruz F.
Novelo-Garza B.
Pavón-Vargas M.d.l.Á.
Salgado-Galicia N.
Bortolini M.C.
Bedoya G.
Rothhammer F.
González-José R.
Ruiz-Linares A.
Canizales-Quinteros S.
Romero-Hidalgo S.
Krause J.
Zúñiga J.
Yunis E.J.
Bekker-Méndez C.
Granados J.
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Inc.
Abstract
We studied HLA class I (HLA-A, -B) and class II (HLA-DRB1, -DQB1) allele groups and alleles by PCR-SSP based typing in a total of 15,318 mixed ancestry Mexicans from all the states of the country divided into 78 sample sets, providing information regarding allelic and haplotypic frequencies and their linkage disequilibrium, as well as admixture estimates and genetic substructure. We identified the presence of 4268 unique HLA extended haplotypes across Mexico and find that the ten most frequent (HF > 1%) HLA haplotypes with significant linkage disequilibrium (Δ’≥0.1) in Mexico (accounting for 20% of the haplotypic diversity of the country) are of primarily Native American ancestry (A*02~B*39~DRB1*04~DQB1*03:02, A*02~B*35~DRB1*08~DQB1*04, A*68~B*39~DRB1*04~DQB1*03:02, A*02~B*35~DRB1*04~DQB1*03:02, A*24~B*39~DRB1*14~DQB1*03:01, A*24~B*35~DRB1*04~DQB1*03:02, A*24~B*39~DRB1*04~DQB1*03:02, A*02~B*40:02~DRB1*04~DQB1*03:02, A*68~B*35~DRB1*04~DQB1*03:02, A*02~B*15:01~DRB1*04~DQB1*03:02). Admixture estimates obtained by a maximum likelihood method using HLA-A/-B/-DRB1 as genetic estimators revealed that the main genetic components in Mexico as a whole are Native American (ranging from 37.8% in the northern part of the country to 81.5% in the southeastern region) and European (ranging from 11.5% in the southeast to 62.6% in northern Mexico). African admixture ranged from 0.0 to 12.7% not following any specific pattern. We were able to detect three major immunogenetic clusters correlating with genetic diversity and differential admixture within Mexico: North, Central and Southeast, which is in accordance with previous reports using genome-wide data. Our findings provide insights into the population immunogenetic substructure of the whole country and add to the knowledge of mixed ancestry Latin American population genetics, important for disease association studies, detection of demographic signatures on population variation and improved allocation of public health resources.
Start page
461
End page
474
Volume
81
Issue
9
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Antropología
Genética humana
Inmunología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85087692403
PubMed ID
Source
Human Immunology
ISSN of the container
01988859
Sponsor(s)
The authors would like to pay tribute to Prof. Francisco Mauro Salzano (1928-2018), who recently passed away, for him inspired a whole generation of Latin American anthropologists, human biologists and geneticists to explore the complexity of Latin American populations. His legacy prevails in several academic texts inspired by his work and view, such as the present manuscript. The authors acknowledge the valuable support of Técnicas Genéticas Aplicadas a la Clínica, S.A. de C.V., Amplibio, S.A. de C.V. and Laboratorios Diagnomol, S.A. de C.V. in various stages of development of the present work. We are particularly grateful to the anonymous reviewers and to Derek Middleton, whom with their committed effort enriched our paper. The authors thank Stephan Schiffels for his support in the admixture proportions analysis and helpful discussions. We are grateful to Raquel Fabiola Hernández Díaz, Victoria Paola García Pérez, María Lourdes Gasca Leyva and Adrián García Soto for their important support. The authors want to express their gratitude to Magdalena Limones, Oscar Jaramillo Muñoz, Jaime Guadalupe Valle Leal, Marcela Liliana Flores Martínez, Margarita Valdez González, Erika Elizabeth González Zapata, Rubén Jardón Pérez, Ileana Raquel Hernández Araiza, Anaí Balbuena Jaime, Iván Pedroza Reyes, Arturo Pacho Varela, Víctor Aramburu Cano, Mónica Ballesteros Romero, Paola Everardo Martínez, Francisco de Ávila Becerril, Miguel Ángel Contreras Sieck, Martha Granados Riveros, Ilich Jafet Moreno, Diana Rogel Díaz, Paola León Mimila, Fabiola González Martínez, Venecia Wendoline Mejia Arredondo, Sandra Cristina González Garfio, Fernando Aguirre Mendoza, Antonio González Martín, Michael Crawford, Christina Warinner, Oana del Castillo Chávez, Alondra Victoria Trejo Ordoz, Laura Curiel Giles, Juan Manuel Argüelles San Millán, Thiseas Lamnidis, Eirini Skourtanioti, Cosimo Posth and Maria Spyrou for their committed technical, logistical and analytical support, including volunteer recruitment, sample processing and data entry and edition as well as insightful discussions in various stages of the present study. The authors wish to thank all participants who benefited our study with their time and sample(s). This project was possible with the joint support from multiple institutions in Mexico. This project was partly funded and supported by the Max Planck Society , the National Committee of Scientific Research and the Health Research Fund (FIS) from the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) (Registries: 2013-3501-1 , FIS/ IMSS / PROT/G11/952 and R-2015-785-078 ) and grants from the Leverhulme Trust ( F/07 134/DF to A.R.-L.), BBSRC ( BB/I021213/1 to A.R.-L.), Universidad de Antioquia (CODI sostenibilidad de grupos 2013-2014 and MASO 2013-2014 ), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico , Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (Apoio a Núcleos de Excelência Program) and Fundação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior. All data from our sample sets, both frequencies and individual genotypes, can be found at The Allele Frequency Net Database website ( www.allelefrequencies.net ).
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