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Fig. 4. Map locations of primate LCR16a. Map location of LCR16a based on BAC-end sequence analysis. Map locations are shown against a human chromosomal ideogram. Arrows show the direction of transcription with respect to the morpheus gene model for the LCR16a duplication; + denotes ancestral locus positions in baboon, and * identifies lineage-specific insertions.
Fig. 5. Sequence alignment of LCR16a loci. Nonhuman primate genomic sequence and corresponding segment in the human genome are compared (see Fig. 2 for a more detailed description). In addition to the WSSD tracks, the estimated copy number of each region is indicated based on the corresponding number of reads per 5 kb.
Fig. 6. The duplication architecture of primate loci is shown in the context of a neighbor-joining (NJ) phylogenetic tree for LCR16a (2-kb noncoding sequence). Loci encoded by species [HSA (Homo sapiens), PTR (Pan troglodytes), GGO (Gorilla gorilla), PPY (Pongo pygmaeus), and PHA (Papio hamadryas)] and relative to human orthologous loci (Fig. 1). New insertions or ambiguous loci were given a letter designation.
Fig. 7. Copy-number and sequence divergence flanking LCR16a in orangutan (a) and human (b). Orangutan genomic sequence AC145295 was analyzed by WSSD analysis against orangutan whole-genome sequencing (WGS) and shown to be completely duplicated (blue bar, >94%). Approximate copy number (orange) and average degree of sequence identity (above the line) were estimated. Both copy number and divergence decrease in a gradient-like fashion from LCR16a, which is the only corresponding segment duplicated in human (pink) and chimpanzee (light blue). A virtually identical analysis using an ≈185-kb segment from human chromosome 16 against human WGS shows the segment to be duplicated in chimpanzee and human in a gradient-like fashion. The only duplicated segment in orangutan (blue bar) corresponds to the LCR16a segment.
Fig. 8. Phylogeny of LCR16 loci. NJ trees with corresponding bootstrap support (n = 1,000 replicates) for each of the LCR16 duplicons.
Fig. 9. More diverged LCR16a loci on chromosomes 11, 10, and X. (a) NJ phylogeny with respect to human and baboon copies. (b) The extent of genomic-sequence overlap with LCR16a consensus based on BLAST sequence similarity. NPIP, nuclear pore-interacting protein human mRNA. DogChr.6 represents the extent of BLAST sequence homology (>70%) from dog chromosome 6 (July, 2004) to this locus. This particular region of dog chromosome 6 is syntenic to human chromosome 16.
Fig. 10. Sequence resolution of breakpoint structures. Shown is a schematic of repeat content and optimal global alignment at the breakpoints between human and nonhuman primate new insertions.