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GENOME RESEARCH
Volume 25, Issue 12, Pages 1921-1933Publisher
COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT
DOI: 10.1101/gr.192922.115
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- NIH-NHGRI [5U54HG00307907]
- NIH [RR019963/OD010965, R01RR016300, R01OD010980]
- French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis (ANRS)
- Ministero della Universita e della Ricerca
- Genome Canada
- Genome Quebec
- Wellcome Trust [WT095908]
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory
- Medical Research Council [MC_U190074190, MC_U190081991] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [MC_U190074190, MC_U190081991] Funding Source: UKRI
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
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We describe a genome reference of the African green monkey or vervet (Chlorocebus aethiops). This member of the Old World monkey (OWM) superfamily is uniquely valuable for genetic investigations of simian immunodeficiency virus (Sly), for which it is the most abundant natural host species, and of a wide range of health-related phenotypes assessed in Caribbean vervets (C. a. sabaeus), whose numbers have expanded dramatically since Europeans introduced small numbers of their ancestors from West Africa during the colonial era. We use the reference to characterize the genomic relationship between vervets and other primates, the intra-generic phylogeny of vervet subspecies, and genome-wide structural variations of a pedigreed C.a. sabaeuspopulation. Through comparative analyses with human and rhesus macaque, we characterize at high resolution the unique chromosomal fission events that differentiate the vervets and their close relatives from most other catarrhine primates, in whom karyotype is highly conserved. We also provide a summary of transposable elements and contrast these with the rhesus macaque and human. Analysis of sequenced genomes representing each of the main vervet subspecies supports previously hypothesized relationships between these populations, which range across most of sub-Saharan Africa, while uncovering high levels of genetic diversity within each. Sequence-based analyses of major histocompatibility complex alFig polymorphisms reveal extremely low diversity in Caribbean C.a. sabaeusvervets, compared to vervets from putatively ancestral West African regions. In the C.a. sabaeus research population, we discover the first structural variations that are, in some cases, predicted to have a deleterious effect; future studies will determine the phenotypic impact of these variations.
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