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Mizuno F, Tokanai F, Kumagai M, Ishiya K, Sugiyama S, Hayashi M, Kurosaki K, Ueda S. Bioarchaeological study of ancient Teotihuacans based on complete mitochondrial genome sequences and diet isotopes. Ann Hum Biol 2023; 50:390-398. [PMID: 37812249 DOI: 10.1080/03014460.2023.2261844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2023] [Accepted: 09/06/2023] [Indexed: 10/10/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND The Teotihuacan civilisation was the largest one in ancient Mesoamerica. The Teotihuacan city was born in the north-eastern Basin of Mexico around the second century BC, reached its peak in the fourth century AD, and had cultural influence throughout Mesoamerica. At its peak, the size of the city reached more than 20 km2, and the total population is estimated to have increased from 100,000 to 200,000. However, knowledge of the genetic background of the Teotihuacan people is still limited. AIM We aimed to determine the mitogenome sequences of the Teotihuacan human remains and compare the ancient and present Mesoamericans. In addition, we aimed to identify the food habits of ancient Teotihuacans. SUBJECTS AND METHODS We determined the mitogenome sequences of human remains dated to 250-636 cal AD using target enrichment-coupled next generation sequencing. We also performed stable isotope analysis. RESULTS We successfully obtained nearly full-length sequences newly unearthed from a civilian dwelling in the Teotihuacan site. Teotihuacan mitochondrial DNA was classified into the haplogroups in present and ancient Mesoamericans. In addition, Teotihuacan individuals had a diet dependent on C4 plants such as maize. CONCLUSION Genetic diversity varied among the Teotihuacans.
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- Fuzuki Mizuno
- Department of Legal Medicine, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Yamagata University Advanced Analysis Center, Yamagata, Japan
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- National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Chiyoda, Japan
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- Research Institute for the Dynamics of Civilizations, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Legal Medicine, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Legal Medicine, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Legal Medicine, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Mizuno F, Gojobori J, Kumagai M, Baba H, Taniguchi Y, Kondo O, Matsushita M, Matsushita T, Matsuda F, Higasa K, Hayashi M, Wang L, Kurosaki K, Ueda S. Population dynamics in the Japanese Archipelago since the Pleistocene revealed by the complete mitochondrial genome sequences. Sci Rep 2021; 11:12018. [PMID: 34121089 PMCID: PMC8200360 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-91357-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2021] [Accepted: 05/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The Japanese Archipelago is widely covered with acidic soil made of volcanic ash, an environment which is detrimental to the preservation of ancient biomolecules. More than 10,000 Palaeolithic and Neolithic sites have been discovered nationwide, but few skeletal remains exist and preservation of DNA is poor. Despite these challenging circumstances, we succeeded in obtaining a complete mitogenome (mitochondrial genome) sequence from Palaeolithic human remains. We also obtained those of Neolithic (the hunting-gathering Jomon and the farming Yayoi cultures) remains, and over 2,000 present-day Japanese. The Palaeolithic mitogenome sequence was not found to be a direct ancestor of any of Jomon, Yayoi, and present-day Japanese people. However, it was an ancestral type of haplogroup M, a basal group of the haplogroup M. Therefore, our results indicate continuity in the maternal gene pool from the Palaeolithic to present-day Japanese. We also found that a vast increase of population size happened and has continued since the Yayoi period, characterized with paddy rice farming. It means that the cultural transition, i.e. rice agriculture, had significant impact on the demographic history of Japanese population.
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- Fuzuki Mizuno
- Department of Legal Medicine, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
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- Department of Evolutionary Studies of Biosystems, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama, Japan.
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- Advanced Analysis Center, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Letters, Kokugakuin University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Genome Analysis, Institute of Biomedical Science, Kansai Medical University, Hirakata, Japan
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- Department of Legal Medicine, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- School of Medicine, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China.
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- Department of Legal Medicine, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Legal Medicine, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Mizuno F, Ishiya K, Matsushita M, Matsushita T, Hampson K, Hayashi M, Tokanai F, Kurosaki K, Ueda S. A biomolecular anthropological investigation of William Adams, the first SAMURAI from England. Sci Rep 2020; 10:21651. [PMID: 33303940 PMCID: PMC7729870 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-78723-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2020] [Accepted: 11/27/2020] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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William Adams (Miura Anjin) was an English navigator who sailed with a Dutch trading fleet to the far East and landed in Japan in 1600. He became a vassal under the Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu, was bestowed with a title, lands and swords, and became the first SAMURAI from England. "Miura" comes from the name of the territory given to him and "Anjin" means "pilot". He lived out the rest of his life in Japan and died in Hirado, Nagasaki Prefecture, in 1620, where he was reportedly laid to rest. Shortly after his death, graveyards designated for foreigners were destroyed during a period of Christian repression, but Miura Anjin's bones were supposedly taken, protected, and reburied. Archaeological investigations in 1931 uncovered human skeletal remains and it was proposed that they were those of Miura Anjin. However, this could not be confirmed from the evidence at the time and the remains were reburied. In 2017, excavations found skeletal remains matching the description of those reinterred in 1931. We analyzed these remains from various aspects, including genetic background, dietary habits, and burial style, utilizing modern scientific techniques to investigate whether they do indeed belong to the first English SAMURAI.
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- Fuzuki Mizuno
- Department of Legal Medicine, Toho University School of Medicine, 5-21-16, Omori-Nishi, Ota-ku, Tokyo, 143-8540, Japan.
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- Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Sapporo, 062-8517, Japan
- Computational Bio Big Data Open Innovation Lab (CBBD-OIL), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)-Waseda University, Tokyo, 169-8555, Japan
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- The Organization of Anthropological Research, Yamaguchi, 759-6604, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Legal Medicine, Toho University School of Medicine, 5-21-16, Omori-Nishi, Ota-ku, Tokyo, 143-8540, Japan
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- Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Yamagata University, Kaminoyama, 999-3101, Japan
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- Department of Legal Medicine, Toho University School of Medicine, 5-21-16, Omori-Nishi, Ota-ku, Tokyo, 143-8540, Japan.
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- Department of Legal Medicine, Toho University School of Medicine, 5-21-16, Omori-Nishi, Ota-ku, Tokyo, 143-8540, Japan
- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
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Mizuno F, Taniguchi Y, Kondo O, Hayashi M, Kurosaki K, Ueda S. A study of 8,300-year-old Jomon human remains in Japan using complete mitogenome sequences obtained by next-generation sequencing. Ann Hum Biol 2020; 47:555-559. [PMID: 32674620 DOI: 10.1080/03014460.2020.1797164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Ancient human remains have been assigned to their mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups. To obtain efficiently deep and reliable nucleotide sequences of ancient DNA of interest, we achieved target enrichment followed by next-generation sequencing (NGS). Complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) sequences were obtained for three human remains from the Iyai rock-shelter site of the Initial Jomon Period in Japan. All the Jomon mitogenomes belong to haplogroup N9b, but no sequences among them were identical. High genetic diversity was clarified even among the Jomon human remains belonging to haplogroup N9b, which has been described as a haplogroup representing the Jomon people.
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- Fuzuki Mizuno
- Department of Legal Medicine, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Letters, Kokugakuin University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Legal Medicine, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Legal Medicine, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Legal Medicine, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Ishiya K, Mizuno F, Wang L, Ueda S. MitoIMP: A Computational Framework for Imputation of Missing Data in Low-Coverage Human Mitochondrial Genome. Bioinform Biol Insights 2019; 13:1177932219873884. [PMID: 31523131 PMCID: PMC6732850 DOI: 10.1177/1177932219873884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2019] [Accepted: 08/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
The incompleteness of partial human mitochondrial genome sequences makes it difficult to perform relevant comparisons among multiple resources. To deal with this issue, we propose a computational framework for deducing missing nucleotides in the human mitochondrial genome. We applied it to worldwide mitochondrial haplogroup lineages and assessed its performance. Our approach can deduce the missing nucleotides with a precision of 0.99 or higher in most human mitochondrial DNA lineages. Furthermore, although low-coverage mitochondrial genome sequences often lead to a blurred relationship in the multidimensional scaling analysis, our approach can correct this positional arrangement according to the corresponding mitochondrial DNA lineages. Therefore, our framework will provide a practical solution to compensate for the lack of genome coverage in partial and fragmented human mitochondrial genome sequences. In this study, we developed an open-source computer program, MitoIMP, implementing our imputation procedure. MitoIMP is freely available from https://github.com/omics-tools/mitoimp.
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- Koji Ishiya
- Computational Bio Big Data Open Innovation Lab (CBBD-OIL), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)-Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Legal Medicine, School of Medicine, Toho University, Tokyo, Japan
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- School of Medicine, Hangzhou Normal University, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Legal Medicine, School of Medicine, Toho University, Tokyo, Japan.,School of Medicine, Hangzhou Normal University, Zhejiang, China.,Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Gaudin M, Desnues C. Hybrid Capture-Based Next Generation Sequencing and Its Application to Human Infectious Diseases. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2924. [PMID: 30542340 PMCID: PMC6277869 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2018] [Accepted: 11/14/2018] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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This review describes target-enrichment approaches followed by next generation sequencing and their recent application to the research and diagnostic field of modern and past infectious human diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, parasites and fungi.
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- Maxime Gaudin
- IRD 198, CNRS FRE2013, Assistance-Publique des Hôpitaux de Marseille, UMR Microbes, Evolution, Phylogeny and Infections (MEPHI), IHU Méditerranée Infection, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France
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- IRD 198, CNRS FRE2013, Assistance-Publique des Hôpitaux de Marseille, UMR Microbes, Evolution, Phylogeny and Infections (MEPHI), IHU Méditerranée Infection, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France
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Eduardoff M, Xavier C, Strobl C, Casas-Vargas A, Parson W. Optimized mtDNA Control Region Primer Extension Capture Analysis for Forensically Relevant Samples and Highly Compromised mtDNA of Different Age and Origin. Genes (Basel) 2017; 8:genes8100237. [PMID: 28934125 PMCID: PMC5664087 DOI: 10.3390/genes8100237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2017] [Revised: 09/06/2017] [Accepted: 09/18/2017] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has proven useful in forensic genetics and ancient DNA (aDNA) studies, where specimens are often highly compromised and DNA quality and quantity are low. In forensic genetics, the mtDNA control region (CR) is commonly sequenced using established Sanger-type Sequencing (STS) protocols involving fragment sizes down to approximately 150 base pairs (bp). Recent developments include Massively Parallel Sequencing (MPS) of (multiplex) PCR-generated libraries using the same amplicon sizes. Molecular genetic studies on archaeological remains that harbor more degraded aDNA have pioneered alternative approaches to target mtDNA, such as capture hybridization and primer extension capture (PEC) methods followed by MPS. These assays target smaller mtDNA fragment sizes (down to 50 bp or less), and have proven to be substantially more successful in obtaining useful mtDNA sequences from these samples compared to electrophoretic methods. Here, we present the modification and optimization of a PEC method, earlier developed for sequencing the Neanderthal mitochondrial genome, with forensic applications in mind. Our approach was designed for a more sensitive enrichment of the mtDNA CR in a single tube assay and short laboratory turnaround times, thus complying with forensic practices. We characterized the method using sheared, high quantity mtDNA (six samples), and tested challenging forensic samples (n = 2) as well as compromised solid tissue samples (n = 15) up to 8 kyrs of age. The PEC MPS method produced reliable and plausible mtDNA haplotypes that were useful in the forensic context. It yielded plausible data in samples that did not provide results with STS and other MPS techniques. We addressed the issue of contamination by including four generations of negative controls, and discuss the results in the forensic context. We finally offer perspectives for future research to enable the validation and accreditation of the PEC MPS method for final implementation in forensic genetic laboratories.
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- Mayra Eduardoff
- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
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- Grupo de Genética de Poblaciones e Identificación, Instituto de Genética, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
- Forensic Science Program, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
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Mizuno F, Kumagai M, Kurosaki K, Hayashi M, Sugiyama S, Ueda S, Wang L. Imputation approach for deducing a complete mitogenome sequence from low-depth-coverage next-generation sequencing data: application to ancient remains from the Moon Pyramid, Mexico. J Hum Genet 2017; 62:631-635. [PMID: 28202952 DOI: 10.1038/jhg.2017.14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2016] [Revised: 01/12/2017] [Accepted: 01/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Abstract
It is considered that more than 15 depths of coverage are necessary for next-generation sequencing (NGS) data to obtain reliable complete nucleotide sequences of the mitogenome. However, it is difficult to satisfy this requirement for all nucleotide positions because of problems obtaining a uniform depth of coverage for poorly preserved materials. Thus, we propose an imputation approach that allows a complete mitogenome sequence to be deduced from low-depth-coverage NGS data. We used different types of mitogenome data files as panels for imputation: a worldwide panel comprising all the major haplogroups, a worldwide panel comprising sequences belonging to the estimated haplogroup alone, a panel comprising sequences from the population most closely related to an individual under investigation, and a panel comprising sequences belonging to the estimated haplogroup from the population most closely related to an individual under investigation. The number of missing nucleotides was drastically reduced in all the panels, but the contents obtained by imputation were quite different among the panels. The efficiency of the imputation method differed according to the panels used. The missing nucleotides were most credibly imputed using sequences of the estimated haplogroup from the population most closely related to the individual under investigation as a panel.
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- Fuzuki Mizuno
- Department of Legal Medicine, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.,Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Legal Medicine, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Legal Medicine, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Graduate school of International Cultural Studies, Cultural Symbiosis Research Institute, Aichi Prefectural University, Aichi, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.,School of Medicine, Hangzhou Normal University School of Medicine, Zhejiang, China
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- School of Medicine, Hangzhou Normal University School of Medicine, Zhejiang, China
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Kozarewa I, Armisen J, Gardner AF, Slatko BE, Hendrickson C. Overview of Target Enrichment Strategies. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015; 112:7.21.1-7.21.23. [DOI: 10.1002/0471142727.mb0721s112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Iwanka Kozarewa
- Oncology Translational Science, Innovative Medicines & Early Development, AstraZeneca Cambridge United Kingdom
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Quantitative PCR as a predictor of aligned ancient DNA read counts following targeted enrichment. Biotechniques 2014; 55:300-9. [PMID: 24344679 DOI: 10.2144/000114114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2013] [Accepted: 11/18/2013] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Targeted DNA enrichment through hybridization capture (EHC) is rapidly replacing PCR as the method of choice for enrichment prior to genomic resequencing. This is especially true in the case of ancient DNA (aDNA) from long-dead organisms, where targets tend to be highly fragmented and outnumbered by contaminant DNA. However, the behavior of EHC using aDNA has been quite variable, making success difficult to predict and preventing efficient sample equilibration during multiplexed sequencing runs. Here, we evaluate whether quantitative PCR (qPCR) measurements of aDNA samples correlate with on-target read counts before and after EHC. Our data indicate that not only do simple target qPCRs correlate strongly with high-throughput sequencing (HTS) data but that certain sample characteristics, such as overall target abundance as well as experimental parameters (e.g., bait concentration and secondary structure propensity), consistently influenced enrichment of our diverse set of aDNA samples. Taken together, our results should help guide experimental design, screening strategies, and multiplexed sample equilibration, increasing yield and reducing the expected and actual cost of aDNA EHC high-throughput sequencing projects in the future.
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