Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Evolutionary and functional impact of common polymorphic inversions in the human genome

  • Carla Giner-Delgado,
  • Sergi Villatoro,
  • Jon Lerga-Jaso,
  • Magdalena Gayà-Vidal,
  • Meritxell Oliva,
  • David Castellano,
  • Lorena Pantano,
  • Bárbara D. Bitarello,
  • David Izquierdo,
  • Isaac Noguera,
  • Iñigo Olalde,
  • Alejandra Delprat,
  • Antoine Blancher,
  • Carles Lalueza-Fox,
  • Tõnu Esko,
  • Paul F. O’Reilly,
  • Aida M. Andrés,
  • Luca Ferretti,
  • Marta Puig,
  • Mario Cáceres

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12173-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Inversions are a little-studied type of genomic variation that could contribute to phenotypic traits. Here the authors characterize 45 common polymorphic inversions in human populations and investigate their evolutionary and functional impact.