Ancestry Flashcards
Story of the human genome (Dunstan)
The story of the human genome is an African one
Human migration + alleles
Human migration carried subsets of geentic diveristy to new locations – each popultons established difefrent frequncies (sometimes popultions will aquire novel variations)
Novel variations
Sometimes popultions will aquire novel variations
Human mutation rate – 0.5 X 10^-9 per BP per meiosis
Allele freuqncies between popupultions
Subset of allles left popultion and founded new popultions –> As each popultion is established there is a different frequencey of allles in each popultion
- All alleles are still founded in Afirca (because we came from there) but in different frequnceies
DIFFERENT HUMAN POPULTIONS HAVE DIFFERENT ALLELE FREQUCNIES
What do genetic tests use
Direct to consumer genetic testing companies take advantage of popultion level allele frequnecies to guess your gentic testing
Guess in Genetic tests
It is a statistical assemnet – NOT guarentee
What do companies offer
- Ancestry reports
- Genotype to phenotype predictions
Ancestory reports of genetic testing
Detemrines the percentage of DNA that orginated from different popultions
- What percent of DNA is from what part of the world
Genotype to phenotyoe predictions in genetic tests
Calculate Disease risks
Predict drug repsonses
Predicts ‘fun’ phenotypes (Bitter taste + earwax type + freckling + height)
What do genetic testing companies sequence
They do not sequence genomes –> since only 0.1% of our genome is varaible –> DTC companies save money by only genotyping SNPs
- Why sequncey all that would be the same –> only look at varaible resghions
- Look at SNPs across genome
- Look at all Autosomes + sex chromsomes
Variability in genome
Only 0.1% of our genome are varaible
What do testing companies look for
You only see what you are looking for –> novel mutations will not be identified
- You won’t see mutations that are not the SNPs looking at
How do companies test DNA?
- ssDNA containing specific SNP variants are bound to
a glass slide (a microarray) - sample DNA is isolated, fragmented and
fluorescently labeled and applied over the entire
slide. - Sample DNA fragments bind to complementary
sequences. - Hybridization efficiencies determined by
fluorescence intensities. - The higher the fluorescence, the higher the
probability that the sample DNA matches the snp on
the array
MINE:
DNA –> Chop up DNA –> Put florucent tag –> put on array – on that array you have DNA on chip –> if the DNA match = DNA binds and get flourecence
Issue = not 100% certain – they all have high percent of C
Haplotype
A set of SNPs found on the same chromosome