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Susumu Ohno hypothesized that the diversity of vertebrate gene families and genome is due to two rounds of whole genome duplications (also referred as 2R hypothesis). The quadruplicate paralogous blocks present on 1/2/8/20 chromosomes are taken as one of the evidences in favor of the 2R. In this study, we investigated that whether 2R has shaped the vertebrate evolution using gene families residing on chromosomes 1/2/8/20. Evolutionary history of 22 gene families (11 from the current study and 11 from the previous study) was evaluated by the phylogenetic analysis with triplicated or quadruplicated distribution on these human chromosomes 1/2/8/20. The phylogenetic analysis was performed using high-quality whole genomic sequence data of multiple species with neighbor-joining (NJ) and maximum likelihood (ML) methods. The phylogenetic tree topology of these gene families revealed variable duplication time points during invertebrate–vertebrate evolution. Topology comparison approach categorized 22 gene families into three groups. Tree topologies of ten gene families fell into Group 1 (duplications prior to invertebrate–vertebrate split), four in Group 2 (i.e., (AB) (C) (D), topology incongruent with 2R) and eight in Group 3 (((AB) (CD)), 2R congruent topology). Therefore, taken together the current and previous data of 1/2/8/20 paralogons, we propose that, in addition to whole genome duplications events, current developmental, morphological and genomic complexity of the vertebrate genomes may also have originated through segmental duplications occurring at varying time points during the course of animal evolution.
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Haq, F., Saeed, U., Khalid, R. et al. Phylogenetic analyses of human 1/2/8/20 paralogons suggest segmental duplications during animal evolution. 3 Biotech 9, 233 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13205-019-1768-7
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