Gene diversity of chimpanzee ABO blood group genes elucidated from intron 6 sequences | Zendy

Takashi Kitano | Zendy; Reiko Noda | Zendy; Kenta Sumiyama | Zendy; R. E. Ferrell | Zendy; Naruya Saitou | Zendy

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Gene diversity of chimpanzee ABO blood group genes elucidated from intron 6 sequences

Author(s) -

Takashi Kitano,

Reiko Noda,

Kenta Sumiyama,

R. E. Ferrell,

Naruya Saitou

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

journal of heredity

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.99

H-Index - 92

eISSN - 1471-8505

pISSN - 0022-1503

DOI - 10.1093/jhered/91.3.211

Subject(s) - biology , bonobo , abo blood group system , genetics , intron , gene , phylogenetic tree , lineage (genetic) , allele , exon , evolutionary biology , ecology

The human and nonhuman primate ABO blood group gene shows relatively large numbers of nucleotide differences around the exon 7 region. In this study we determined intron 6 sequences for 9 alleles of common chimpanzee and for 3 alleles of bonobo to estimate nucleotide diversities among them. Sequence length polymorphisms are observed in this region as a repeat appears one to five times. From a phylogenetic network of intron 6 sequences of ABO blood group genes for humans, common chimpanzee, and bonobo, parallel substitutions and/or some kinds of convergent events are predicted in the chimpanzee lineage. We also estimated nucleotide diversities for common chimpanzee and bonobo ABO blood group genes; these values were 0.219% and 0.208%, respectively.

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