The Recombination Landscape of the Khoe-San - the Upper Limits of Recombination Divergence in Humans
van Eeden, G.; Uren, C.; Pless, E.; Mastoras, M.; van der Spuy, G.; Tromp, G.; Henn, B.; Möller, M.
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Recombination maps are important resources for epidemiological and evolutionary analyses, however, there are currently no recombination maps representing any African population outside of those with West African ancestry. We inferred the demographic history for the Nama, an indigenous Khoe-San population of southern Africa, and derived a novel, population-specific recombination map from the whole genome sequencing of 54 Nama individuals. We hypothesized that there are no publicly available recombination maps representative of the Nama, considering the deep population divergence and subsequent isolation of the Khoe-San from other African groups. We showed that the recombination landscape of the Nama does not cluster with any continental groups with publicly available representative recombination maps. Finally, we used selection scans as an example of how fine-scale differences between the Nama recombination map and the combined Phase II HapMap recombination map can impact the outcome of selection scans.
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