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Journal Article
The landscape of genomic structural variation in Indigenous Australians
2023
Overview
Indigenous Australians harbour rich and unique genomic diversity. However, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ancestries are historically under-represented in genomics research and almost completely missing from reference datasets
1
–
3
. Addressing this representation gap is critical, both to advance our understanding of global human genomic diversity and as a prerequisite for ensuring equitable outcomes in genomic medicine. Here we apply population-scale whole-genome long-read sequencing
4
to profile genomic structural variation across four remote Indigenous communities. We uncover an abundance of large insertion–deletion variants (20–49 bp;
n
= 136,797), structural variants (50 b–50 kb;
n
= 159,912) and regions of variable copy number (>50 kb;
n
= 156). The majority of variants are composed of tandem repeat or interspersed mobile element sequences (up to 90%) and have not been previously annotated (up to 62%). A large fraction of structural variants appear to be exclusive to Indigenous Australians (12% lower-bound estimate) and most of these are found in only a single community, underscoring the need for broad and deep sampling to achieve a comprehensive catalogue of genomic structural variation across the Australian continent. Finally, we explore short tandem repeats throughout the genome to characterize allelic diversity at 50 known disease loci
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, uncover hundreds of novel repeat expansion sites within protein-coding genes, and identify unique patterns of diversity and constraint among short tandem repeat sequences. Our study sheds new light on the dimensions and dynamics of genomic structural variation within and beyond Australia.
Population-scale whole-genome sequencing across four remote Indigenous Australian communities reveals a large fraction of structural variants that are unique to these populations, emphasizing the genetic distinctiveness of and diversity among Indigenous Australians.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group
Subject
/ 45/22
/ 45/23
/ Alleles
/ Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples - genetics
/ DNA Copy Number Variations - genetics
/ Genomes
/ Genomic Structural Variation - genetics
/ Genomics
/ Humanities and Social Sciences
/ Humans
/ Interspersed Repetitive Sequences - genetics
/ Microsatellite Repeats - genetics
/ Science
