Alpha globin variation in the long-tailed macaque suggests malaria selection
Faust, C. L.; Rangkuti, F.; Preston, S. G.; Boyd, A.; Flammer, P.; Bia, B.; Rose, N. J.; Piel, F. N.; Smith, A. L.; Dobson, A. P.; Gupta, S.; Penman, B. S.
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Human haemoglobin variants, such as sickle, confer protection against death from malaria; consequently, frequencies of such variants are often greatly elevated in humans from malaria endemic regions. Among non-human primates, the long-tailed macaque, Macaca fascicularis, also displays substantial haemoglobin variation. Almost all M. fascicularis haemoglobin variation is in the alpha globin chain, encoded by two linked genes: HBA1 and HBA2. We demonstrate that alpha globin variation in M. fascicularis correlates with the strength of malaria selection. We identify a range of missense mutations in M. fascicularis alpha globin and demonstrate that some of these exhibit a striking HBA1 or HBA2 specificity, a pattern consistent with computational simulations of selection on genes exhibiting copy number variation. We propose that M. fascicularis accumulated amino acid substitutions in its alpha globin genes under malaria selection, in a process that closely mirrors, but does not entirely converge with, human malaria adaptation.
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