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Genetic Adaptation of Skin Pigmentation in Highland Tibetans
论文题目: Genetic Adaptation of Skin Pigmentation in Highland Tibetans
作者: Yang, Zhaohui; Bai, Caijuan; Pu, Youwei; Kong, Qinghong; Guo, Yongbo; Liu, Xuyang; Zhao, Qi; Qiu, Zhichao; Zheng, Wangshan; He, Yaoxi; Lin, Yihan; Deng, Lian; Zhang, Chao; Xu, Shuhua; Peng, Yi; Xiang, Kun; Zhang, Xiaoming; Cui, Chaoying; Pan, Yongyue; Xin, Jingxue; Wang, Yong; Liu, Shiming; Wang, Liangbang; Guo, Hengliang; Feng, Zhenzhen; Wang, Shaobo; Shi, Hong; Jiang, Binghua; Wu, Tianyi; Qi, Xuebin; Su, Bing
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发表年度: 2022
DOI: DOI10.1073/pnas.2200421119
摘要: Strong ultraviolet (UV) radiation at high altitude imposes a serious selective pressure, which may induce skin pigmentation adaptation of indigenous populations. We conducted skin pigmentation phenotyping and genome-wide analysis of Tibetans in order to understand the underlying mechanism of adaptation to UV radiation. We observe that Tibetans have darker baseline skin color compared with lowland Han Chinese, as well as an improved tanning ability, suggesting a two-level adaptation to boost their melanin production. A genome-wide search for the responsible genes identifies GNPAT showing strong signals of positive selection in Tibetans. An enhancer mutation (rs75356281) located in GNPAT intron 2 is enriched in Tibetans (58%) but rare in other world populations (0 to 18%). The adaptive allele of rs75356281 is associated with darker skin in Tibetans and, under UVB treatment, it displays higher enhancer activities compared with the wild-type allele in invitro luciferase assays. Transcriptome analyses of gene-edited cells clearly show that with UVB treatment, the adaptive variant of GNPAT promotes melanin synthesis, likely through the interactions of CAT and ACAA1 in peroxisomes with other pigmentation genes, and they act synergistically, leading to an improved tanning ability in Tibetans for UV protection
刊物名称: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA
论文出处: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2200421119?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed
影响因子: 12.779(2021IF)
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