Using multi-way admixture mapping to elucidate TB susceptibility in the South African Coloured population
Date
2014-11
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BioMed Central
Abstract
Background: The admixed South African Coloured population is ideally suited to the discovery of tuberculosis susceptibility genetic variants and their probable ethnic origins, but previous attempts at finding such variants using genome-wide admixture mapping were hampered by the inaccuracy of local ancestry inference. In this study, we infer local ancestry using the novel algorithm implemented in RFMix, with the emphasis on identifying regions of excess San or Bantu ancestry, which we hypothesize may harbour TB susceptibility genes.
Results
Using simulated data, we demonstrate reasonable accuracy of local ancestry inference by RFMix, with a tendency towards miss-calling San ancestry as Bantu. Regions with either excess San ancestry or excess African (San or Bantu) ancestry are less likely to be affected by this bias, and we therefore proceeded to identify such regions, found in cases but not in controls (642 cases and 91 controls). A number of promising regions were found (overall p-values of 7.19×10-5 for San ancestry and <2.00×10-16 for African ancestry), including chromosomes 15q15 and 17q22, which are close to genomic regions previously implicated in TB. Promising immune-related susceptibility genes such as the GADD45A, OSM and B7-H5 genes are also harboured in the identified regions.
Conclusion
Admixture mapping is feasible in the South African Coloured population and a number of novel TB susceptibility genomic regions were uncovered.
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Please cite as follows: Daya, M. et al. 2014. Using multi-way admixture mapping to elucidate TB susceptibility in the South African Coloured population. BMC Genomics, 15(1):1021, doi:10.1186/1471-2164-15-1021.
The original publication is available at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/15/1021
Publication of this article was funded by the Stellenbosch University Open Access Fund.
The original publication is available at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/15/1021
Publication of this article was funded by the Stellenbosch University Open Access Fund.
Keywords
Tuberculosis -- Susceptibility, Tuberculosis -- Genetic aspects
Citation
Daya, M. et al. 2014. Using multi-way admixture mapping to elucidate TB susceptibility in the South African Coloured population. BMC Genomics, 15(1):1021, doi:10.1186/1471-2164-15-1021.