Crumbling Genome

Crumbling Genome

The Impact of Deleterious Mutations on Humans

Kondrashov, Alexey S.

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

07/2017

304

Mole

Inglês

9781118952115

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Preface ix

1 Genotypes and Phenotypes 1

1.1 DNA is a Text 1

1.2 Genomes Small and Large 6

1.3 Genes and Intergenic Regions 7

1.4 Cells, Mitosis, and Meiosis 14

1.5 From Genotype to Phenotype 17

Further Reading 21

2 Mendelian Inheritance and Population Genetics 23

2.1 Inheritance is Discrete 23

2.2 Populations are Genetically Variable 27

2.3 Loci and Genes 33

2.4 Effects of Alleles on Phenotypes 37

2.5 Mendelian Traits and Diseases 43

Further Reading 46

3 Complex Traits and Their Inheritance 49

3.1 Complex Inheritance of Phenotypes 49

3.2 Properties of a Complex Trait 52

3.3 Complex Traits in Populations 55

3.4 Effects of Heredity and Environment on Complex Traits 60

3.5 Polymorphic Loci Behind Complex Variation 64

Further Reading 68

4 Unavoidable Mutation 71

4.1 Phenomenon of Mutation 71

4.2 Kinds of Mutations 73

4.3 Spontaneous Mutation 75

4.4 Evolution of Mutation Rates 77

4.5 Artificial Mutagenesis and Antimutagenesis 79

Further Reading 81

5 Struggle for Fidelity 83

5.1 Fidelity of DNA Replication 83

5.2 Cleaning Up After the Replisome 88

5.3 Dealing with DNA Damages 91

5.4 Harms of Broken Maintenance 96

5.5 Mechanisms of Mutation 100

Further Reading 104

6 Mutation Rates 107

6.1 Measuring Mutation Rates 107

6.2 Data on Mutation Rates 109

6.3 Guilty Older Men 112

6.4 Rates of Phenotypically Drastic Mutations 114

6.5 Mild Mutations and Mutational Pressures 118

Further Reading 121

7 Natural Selection 123

7.1 Vulnerable Adaptations and Their Evolutionary Origin 123

7.2 Two Basic Characteristics of Selection 127

7.3 Measuring Natural Selection 129

7.4 Selection at a Polymorphic Locus 132

7.5 Selection on a Quantitative Trait 135

Further Reading 138

8 Functioning DNA and Junk DNA 141

8.1 Selective Neutrality and Random Drift 141

8.2 Effective Population Size 144

8.3 Junk DNA Provides the Simplest Evidence for Evolution 144

8.4 Finding Functioning Genome Segments 145

8.5 The Genomic Rate of Deleterious Mutations 147

Further Reading 148

9 It Takes All the Running You Can Do 149

9.1 Middle Class Neighborhood for Drosophila 149

9.2 Selection Against Deleterious Alleles 153

9.3 Mutation-Selection Equilibrium 155

9.4 Inbreeding Depression 158

9.5 Dangerous Slightly Deleterious Alleles 160

Further Reading 162

10 Phenomenon of Imperfection 165

10.1 Phenotypic and Genotypic Imperfection 165

10.2 Five Evolutionary Causes of Imperfection 168

10.3 Weakly Perfect Human Genotypes and Phenotypes 171

10.4 Native, Novel, and Optimal Environments 173

10.5 Factors, Exacerbating Mutation Imperfection 175

Further Reading 176

11 Our Imperfect Fitness 177

11.1 Properties of an Allele 177

11.2 Human Derived Alleles 180

11.3 Average Imperfection of a Genotype 186

11.4 Variation Among Genotypes 190

11.5 Selection in Modern Human Populations 192

Further Reading 197

12 Our Imperfect Wellness 199

12.1 Qualitative Characteristics of Wellness 199

12.2 Quantitative Traits 206

12.3 Contributions of Heredity and Environment 208

12.4 Wellness-impairing Alleles 211

12.5 Genetic Architecture of Wellness 215

Further Reading 217

13 Mutational Pressure on Our Species 219

13.1 Mutational Pressure on Diseases 219

13.2 Mutational Pressure on Quantitative Traits 225

13.3 Possible Increase of the Mutational Pressure 226

13.4 De Novo Mutations and Human Wellness 228

13.5 Optimistic and Pessimistic Scenarios 230

Further Reading 231

14 Ethical Issues 233

14.1 Lessons from History 233

14.2 Modern Practices 237

14.3 Humanist Ethics and the Main Concern 241

14.4 The Main Concern and Ethical Dilemmas 244

14.5 Role of Scientists 247

Further Reading 250

15 What to Do? 253

15.1 Conditionally Beneficial or Unconditionally Deleterious? 253

15.2 Mutationless Utopia: What Could It Be? 257

15.3 Mutationless Utopia: Is It Ever Going to Happen? 261

15.4 What Can I Do Without Germline Genotype Modification? 265

15.5 Prognosis 268

Further Reading 269

Index 271
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genome; computational biology; human genetics; the human genome; genetic mutation; spontaneous genetic mutation; genetic mutation effects on human health; evolutionary biology; genotype vs. phenotype; deleterious genetic mutations; effects of genetic mutations in the human genome; genetic mutation health risks; deleterious genetic mutation and human health; dna; nucleotide replacement; protein folding; evolutionary genetics; human evolutionary genetics; evolutionary genomics; evolutionary proteomics; systems biology; human genetic history; mapping mutations in the human genome; gene mutation and evolution; gene mutation and human evolution; genetic mutation and natural selection; genetics and natural selection; gene therapy; advances in computational biology; advances in evolutionary genetics; what is a genome