Background & Objectives: Evolutionary analyses of genes conserved across taxa are keys to understand the complexity of gene and genome variation. Since malaria is a highly infectious human disease and its susceptibility in human is genetically controlled, characterization and evolutionary analyses of such genes are of prime importance to understand genetic mechanisms of disease susceptibility. In the present study we have characterized and performed comparative genomic analyses of the human Duffy gene responsible for malaria pathogenesis in nine different mammalian taxa.
Methods: DNA sequences of human duffy gene were downloaded from public domain and have been characterized in detail and compared with eight other different mammalian taxa (Pan troglodytes, Macaca mulatta, Pongo pygmaeus, Rattus norvegicus, Mus musculus, Monodelphis domestica, Bos taurus and Canis familiaris). Comparative and evolutionary analyses were performed using statistical software and tools.
Results: We observed that the genetic architecture of this gene was entirely different across all the nine taxa and a close similarity between Homo sapiens and Pan troglodytes (chimpanzee) was evident for several aspects of this gene. Comparisons on several aspects, such as ratio of coding and non-coding regions, total gene length number and size of introns and difference of number of nucleotides in human and chimpanzees have revealed interesting features. Phylogenetic inferences based on the Duffy gene among nine different taxa were found to be different than other genes previously studied.
Interpretation & Conclusion: Most remarkably, human and chimpanzee were only 0.75% different in this gene. The results were discussed on the similarities between human and chimpanzee and gain of introns in human-chimpanzee clade with an inference on the role of evolutionary forces (mainly natural selection) in maintaining such variations across closely-related mammalian taxa.
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