Phenotypic Effect. TYR catalyzes the rate-limiting step of melanin biosynthesis and the degree to which human irises are pigmented correlates well with the amplitude of TYR message levels (Lindsey et al. Aside from the fact that many of the SNPs we identified were significant after imposing the Steenland correction for multiple testing, there are three lines of evidence that the SNPs we have identified are not spuriously associated. J Hum Genet 56, 57 (2011). Nonetheless, the study of human OCA mutants suggests that the number of highly penetrant phenotypically active pigmentation loci is surprisingly small. The promoter region for OCA2 is located within the HERC2 gene. However, single-gene studies have not provided a sound basis for understanding the complex genetics of human iris color. In fact, study of the transmission genetics for pigmentation traits in humans and various model systems suggests that variable pigmentation is a function of multiple heritable factors whose interactions appear to be quite complex (Brauer and Chopra 1978; Bito et al. It is interesting that most of the SNPs that we discovered are noncoding, either silent polymorphisms or SNPs residing in the gene proximal promoter, intron, or 3 UTR, which is not altogether unusual. As different genes may be transcribed in various cells, certain cells will produce more pigment or a different type of pigment than other adjacent cells. Decreased expression of OCA2 affects the pathway for melanosome maturation. Finally, in addition to the OCA2 (15q11.2q12) and MYO5A (15q21) sequences, a single SNP (15q22ter) was also implicated on chromosome 15q, but SNPs between each of these three loci were not found to be in LD (data not shown). In other words, their SNPs were associated with iris colors only within the context of gene haplotypes or diplotypes. 39, 14431452 (2007). Sturm, R. A., Teasdale, R. D. & Box, N. F. Human pigmentation genes: identification, structure and consequences of polymorphic variation. Others genes such as AIM, OCA2, and TYRP1 harbored haplotypes positively associated with brown but negatively associated with blue color (AIM haplotype 2; OCA2 haplotypes 2, 4, 45, 47; TYRP1 haplotype 4; Table 3) while others, such as the MYO5A, OCA2, TYRP1, and CYP2C8 genes located at 10q23, harbored haplotypes positively associated with one color but not negatively associated with any other color (MYO5A haplotype 5 and haplotype 10, OCA2 haplotype 19, TYRP1 haplotype 3, and CYP2C8 haplotype 1; Table 3). Second, although a roughly equal number of pigmentation and nonpigmentation gene SNPs were tested, of the 34 marginally associated SNPs, 28 of them. OCA2 codes for a major transmembrane protein in the melanosome maturation process: P protein. Gardner, J., Nakatsu, Y., Gondo, Y., Lee, S., Lyon, M., King, R. et al. In this case, pleiotropic effects change eye color. Tony Frudakis, Matthew Thomas, Zach Gaskin, K Venkateswarlu, K Suresh Chandra, Siva Ginjupalli, Sitaram Gunturi, Sivamani Natrajan, Viswanathan K Ponnuswamy, K N Ponnuswamy, Sequences Associated With Human Iris Pigmentation, Genetics, Volume 165, Issue 4, 1 December 2003, Pages 20712083, https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/165.4.2071. Each chromosome contains thousands of individual genes. .. Gardner J M, Nakatsu Y, Gondo Y, Lee S, Lyon M F et al. For R2 computation, we used the following function: Adj-R2 = 1 [n/(n p)](1 R2), where n is the model degrees of freedom and n p is the error degrees of freedom. Attached earlobes. Most of the SNPs that we identified were on chromosome 15, which Eiberg and Mohr (1996) described from linkage analyses as the primary chromosome for the determination of brownness. As suggested by these authors, the candidate gene within the interval containing this locus (BEY2) is most likely the OCA2 gene, although the MYO5A gene is also present within this interval and, as shown here, associated with iris colors. To an investigator interested in elucidating a biological mechanism, association due to population structure might not seem to be very satisfying, but when classification is the goal rather than the elucidation of a biological mechanism, it would seem to matter little why a marker is associated with a trait. 1992; Durham-Pierre et al. 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European J Hum Genet 13, 913920 (2005). Diplotypes for these genes explain 15% of iris color variation. Comparing the results of the two methods of classification, 86 of the classifications matched. This is an example of a hihybrid crosses. What is the likely genotype of individual C-4? From the chi-square and adjusted residuals, we found 43 haplotypes for 16 different loci to be either positively (agonist) or negatively (antagonist) associated with iris colors (Table 3). OCA2 associations were by far the most significant of any gene or region we tested, while MYO5A SNPs were only weakly associated (but haplotypes and diplotypes more strongly). (2002). .. Newton J M, Cohen-Barak O, Hagiwara N, Gardner J M, Davisson M T et al. SNP discovery: We obtained candidate SNPs from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Database (dbSNP), which generally provided more candidate SNPs than were possible to genotype. In the progeny from this cross, there were 42 plants with red flowers, 86 with pink flowers, and 39 with white flowers. However, this result would not have necessarily been obtained were we working with SNPs that were not truly associated with iris colors. .. King R A, Townsend D, Oetting W S, Spritz R A. Klebig M L, Wilkinson J E, Geisler J G, Woychik R P. Koppula S V, Robbins L S, Lu D, Baack E, White C RJr. ISSN 1435-232X (online) Last, we thank the reviewers of this manuscript who suggested a number of important improvements. Nat Genet. Although our results independently verified findings for OCA2, ASIP, and MC1R, they also show that several other pigmentation genes harbor alleles associated with the natural distribution of iris colors (TYRP1, AIM, MYO5A, and DCT). Tully, G. Genotype versus phenotype: human pigmentation. The most common, which the OCA2 gene is named for, is oculocutaneous albinism. Specimens: Specimens for resequencing were obtained from the Coriell Institute in Camden, New Jersey. genotype - all alleles present in the cell ; phenotype - physical appearance of a trait ; . The first step, however, is to define the complement of loci that on a sequence level explain variance in trait value and, of these, those that do so in a marginal or penetrant sense will be the easiest to find. Although TYR does not code for color, a nonfunctioning TYR masks any other gene responsible for pigmentation. Allele Variations in OCA2 gene (pink-eyed-dilution locus) are associated with genetic susceptibility to melanoma. Am J Hum Genet 82, 424431 (2008). For full access to this pdf, sign in to an existing account, or purchase an annual subscription. Pigmented iris: If a person is homozygous recessive for eye color, there is no pigment in the front part of the eyes, and the blue color of the back of the iris shows through, giving blue eyes . .. Steenland K, Bray I, Greenland S, Boffetta P. Strobel M C, Seperack P K, Copeland N G, Jenkins N A. Valverde P, Healy E, Jackson I, Rees J L, Thody A J. Wilson S M, Yip R, Swing D A, OSullivan T N, Zhang Y et al. For example, forensics investigators construct physical profiles using surprisingly unscientific means; only in rare cases are eye-witness accounts available, and in certain circumstances these accounts are subjective and unreliable. In the absence of melanin brown pigment, the iris is blue. For more extensively admixed individuals, we observed no correlation between higher levels (>33% but <50%) of Native American admixture and iris colors, although there was a weak association between higher levels of East Asian and sub-Saharan African admixture and darker iris colors (data not shown). For these, it would seem more prudent to eliminate false positives downstream of SNP identification, such as from tests of higher-order association, using various other criteria, such as those described above, or possibly using the utility of the SNP for the generalization of a complex classification model when one is finally described. .. Ooi C E, Moreira J E, DellAngelica E C, Poy G, Wassarman D A et al. PubMed Central Internet Explorer). A simple cross is provided in Figure 1: Blue-eyed Cross. Forensic Sci Int: Genet. Duffy, D. L., Montgomery, G. W., Chen, W., Zhao, Z., Le, L., James, M. R. et al. SNPs for the MC1R (16q24), SILV (12q13), and TYR (11q) genes and for the MAOA-Xp11.411.3 and GSTT2-22q11.23 regions were also found to be associated at the level of the haplotype (Tables 3 and 4), although these were the only regions of these chromosomes for which associations were found. Therefore, single-nucleotide polymorphisms in either of these two genes have a large role in the eye color of an individual. Hum Mol Genet 13, 447461 (2004). Dopachrome tautomerase (13q32) and TYR-related protein 1 (9p23) will continue the pathway to form eumelanin.15 Therefore, if any of these proteins are not coded for correctly, the eumelanin production may be hindered, producing lighter eyes. Over 300 SNPs for eye color have been identified on the gene, but classification of their results proved too arduous. It was unclear from the outset whether we would have better success considering iris color in terms of four colors (blue, green, hazel, and brown) or in terms of groups of colors. Linkage studies have implicated certain pigmentation genes as specifically relevant for pigmentation phenotypes, and most of the pigmentation gene SNPs that we identified clustered to certain genes such as OCA2, MYO5A, TYRP1, and AIM. As mentioned previously, melanogenesis produces two different types of melanin and requires numerous proteins. They help with hormone secretion, which affects the pituitary and can lead to dysfunction of the hypothalamus and other protein complexes. In mice and humans where the P protein is nonfunctional, albinism occurs, indicating its crucial role in pigmentation.13, 14 The gene located 11.7kb from HERC2 requires 345kb, but it requires only 24 exons to produce a 110kDa protein with 838 residues. Google Scholar. Given that our iris color data were self-reported, partitioning the sample into brown and not brown, or blue and not blue, could provide greater power to detect significant associations, particularly for alleles associated with blue or brown irises. In melanocyte-specific organelles known as melanosomes, two pathways for melanogenesis occur. Flower-color pigments are synthesized by gene action in two separate pigment-producing biochemical pathways. .. Hanis C, Chakraborty R, Ferrell R, Schull W. Jackson I J, Chambers D M, Tsukamoto K, Copeland N G, Gilbert D J et al. The reason many white, non-Hispanic babies are born with blue eyes is that they don't have the full amount of melanin present in their irises at birth. (82%) were in pigmentation genes. A golden-brown iris indicates the mixture of both eumelanin and pheomelanin (produces the yellow color), and hazel is usually a mixture of brown and green or blue and green, depending on the shade. & WojasPelc, A. Interactions between HERC2, OCA2, and MC1R may influence human pigmentation phenotype. Lack of HWE is usually an indication of a poorly designed genotyping assay, but none of the remaining 7 SNPs exhibited genotyping patterns that we have previously associated with such problems (such as the complete absence of an expected genotype class or all genotypes registering as heterozygotes). .. Kwon H Y, Bultman S J, Loffler C, Chen W-J, Furdon P J et al. Branicki, W., Brudnik, U. Philippe Suarez, Karine Baumer & Diana Hall, Kenneth K. Kidd, Andrew J. Pakstis, William C. Speed, Pirro G. Hysi, Ana M. Valdes, Timothy D. Spector, Kaustubh Adhikari, Javier Mendoza-Revilla, Andrs Ruiz-Linares, Hlne Choquet, Ronald B. Melles, Eric Jorgenson, Frida Lona-Durazo, Marla Mendes, Esteban J. Parra, Mathilde Josserand, Emma Meeussen, Dan Dediu, Journal of Human Genetics b) Give the genotype of an individual who is homozygous recessive for brown eye color. If no haplotypes were found to be associated for a locus but diplotypes were found to be associated, both the haplotypes and the diplotypes are shown. Eye color genes. This gene is often referred to as the red-headed gene because of its prevalent expression in people with red hair and green eyes.4 Dopachrome tautomerase also contains regions for hazel and green eyes.5 Regions for brown eyes dominate the effects of these genes, though. We also identified associations in the ASIP gene, which supports previous work by Kanetsky et al. Haplotypes were inferred using the Stephens et al. brown, hazel) pp Blue Iris (non-pigmented) PG-1: In a human population exhibiting Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium for the eye pigmentation gene, 81% of the people have blue (non-pigmented) irises. Accessibility StatementFor more information contact us atinfo@libretexts.orgor check out our status page at https://status.libretexts.org. brown, hazel) P > p. pp. Eumelanin (brown pigment) is a light-absorbing polymer synthesized in specialized melanocyte lysosomes called melanosomes. We also acknowledge previous National Science Foundation support under grant numbers 1246120, 1525057, and 1413739. a) Give the genotype of an individual, who is homozygous dominant for Brown eye color, where "B" is the letter used to distinguish this trait. Aside from HERC2 and OCA2, the other genes involved in melanin production have some regions that correlate to other eye colors.5 MC1R contains regions that increase the probability of obtaining green eyes. One SNP has been studied to show a large significance for eye color. This finding, while common with albinism, is not specific as iris transillumination occurs in diseases unrelated to albinism such as pseudoexfoliation, pigment dispersion syndrome . Interestingly, the number of genes in human DNA is not appreciably different from the number of genes in chimpanzees or mice. Pigmented irises. The OCA2 gene also contains numerous regions for eye color expression. With the revelation of this epistatic relationship, it helps to prove that it can, and does, happen. (2003) within the context of a software program we developed for this purpose, which will be presented elsewhere (T. Frudakis, Z. Gaskin, M. Thomas, V. Ponnuswamy, K. Venkateswarlu, S. Gunjupulli, C. Bonilla, E. Parra and M. Shriver, personal communication). For each gene, we inferred haplotypes and used contingency analyses to determine which haplotypes were statistically associated with iris colors. .. Schioth H B, Phillips S R, Rudzish R, Birch-Machin M A, Wikberg J E et al. Phakomatoses. Chromosome 15q harbored the majority (14/27) of the SNPs that were marginally associated with iris colors, and all but one of these 14 were found in two different genes: OCA2 and MYO5A (Table 2). Representatives of the resulting PCR products were checked on an agarose gel, and first-round PCR product was diluted and then used as template for a second round of PCR. In the population sample, we were also able to examine the correlation between genotype at the W locus and iris color . A few of the genes/regions not harboring a marginally associated SNP had haplotypes and diplotypes positively and/or negatively associated with iris colors (ASIP gene, 1 haplotype; MC1R gene, 2 haplotypes; Tables 2 and 3). MGG 1, 393394 (1908). (2000) with adjusted residuals to compensate for this risk. IRIS pigmentation is a complex genetic trait that has long interested geneticists, anthropologists, and the public at large. PubMedGoogle Scholar. The front layer of the iris (called the stroma) can make eyes appear brown, blue or green. Alternatively, as a research tool, the common haplotypes that we have identified and the complex, biologically relevant contexts within which they are found may help researchers more accurately define risk factors for pigmentation-related diseases such as cataracts and melanoma. It is toward this goal that we have performed the present study. Predicting phenotype from genotype: normal pigmentation. This provides an explanation why some babies develop their eye color, but skin pigmentation changes constantly throughout life. Genetics 165, 20712083 (2003). Three genome-wide association studies and a linkage analysis identify HERC2 as a human iris color gene. We identified 5 additional genes (ASIP, MC1R, POMC, and SILV) and one additional region (GSTT2-22q11.23) with haplotype and/or diplotypes, but not individual SNP alleles associated with iris colors. Rebbeck et al. We developed a program (T. Frudakis, M. Thomas, Z. Gaskin, K. Venkateswarlu, K. Suresh Chandra, S. Ginjupalli, S. Gunturi, S. Natrajan, V. K. Ponnuswamy and K. N. Ponnuswamy, unpublished results) to design resequencing primers in a manner respectful of homologous sequences in the genome, to ensure that we did not coamplify pseudogenes or amplify from within repeats. For some genes, the number of SNPs in the database was low and/or some of the SNPs were strongly associated with iris colors, warranting a deeper investigation. The decreased expression could account for incomplete dominance, as well. 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Frudakis, Z. Gaskin, M. Thomas, V. Ponnuswamy, K. Venkateswarlu, S. Gunjupulli, C. Bonilla, E. Parra and M. Shriver, unpublished observations). Resequencing for these genes was performed by amplifying the proximal promoter (average 700 bp upstream of transcription start site), each exon (average size 1400 bp), the 5 and 3 ends of each intron (including the intron-exon junctions, average size 100 bp), and 3 untranslated region (UTR; average size 700 bp) sequences from a multi-ethnic panel of 672 individuals (450 individuals from the Coriell Institute's DNA Polymorphism Discovery Resource, 96 additional European Americans, 96 African Americans, 10 Pacific Islanders, 10 Japanese, and 10 Chinese; these 672 individuals represented a set of samples separate from that used for the association study described herein). In other words, the distribution of SNPs among the various gene types was also not random. If you cannot taste anything, you do not possess the dominant allele. What is your genotype for this trait? Although there are about 16 different genes responsible for eye color, it is mostly attributed to two adjacent genes on chromosome 15, hect domain and RCC1-like domain-containing protein 2 (HERC2) and ocular albinism (that is, oculocutaneous albinism II (OCA2)). The pigment responsible for eye color is called melanin, which also affects skin color. Pigment Cell Res 14, 8693 (2001). We thank D. C. Rao, Director of the Division of Biostatistics, Washington University, St. Louis, for help preparing this manuscript; Mark Shriver, Department of Anthropology and Human Genetics at The Pennsylvania State University for his help with the biogeographical ancestry admixture aspect of the project; and Murray Brilliant, professor of Pediatrics and Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Arizona for their kind advice and support of our work. 2001). The mammalian iris has three main tissue layers, all pigmented with melanin: an anterior fibrovascular stroma; a middle smooth-muscle layer consisting of the circumferential sphincter muscle at . .. Rebbeck T R, Kanetsky P A, Walker A H, Holmes R, Halpern A C et al. PHRED-qualified sequences were imported into the CLUSTAL X alignment program and the output of this was used with a second program that we developed (T. Frudakis, M. Thomas, Z. Gaskin, K. Venkateswarlu, K. Suresh Chandra, S. Ginjupalli, S. Gunturi, S. Natrajan, V. K. Ponnuswamy and K. N. Ponnuswamy, unpublished results) to identify quality-validated discrepancies between sequences. This page titled 8.2: Human Traits Determined by Single Genes is shared under a CC BY 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Ellen Genovesi, Laura Blinderman, & Patrick Natale via source content that was edited to the style and standards of the LibreTexts platform; a detailed edit history is available upon request. From a screen of 754 SNP loci, we have identified 61 that are statistically associated with variable iris pigmentation at one level of intragenic complexity or another. Iris transillumination: The iris in albinism has little to no pigment to screen out stray light coming into the eye.On slit lamp exam, the examiner may detect speckled or diffuse transillumination defect. Cell Mol Life Sci 62, 18261838 (2005). Kayser, M., Liu, F., Janssens, A. C., Rivadeneira, F., Lao, O., van Duijn, K. et al. The next steps in eye color research involve hue classification among populations. The possible changes in the DNA sequence are GCT to GTT and GCC to GTC. Melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) instructs a melanocyte to switch production between eumelanin and pheomelanin.3, 4, 5 Therefore, these two proteins affect the quality and quantity of the melanin in the cell. Alleles for these latter SNPs were known to be informative for certain elements of population structure; 73 were selected from a screen of the human genome because they were exceptional ancestry informative markers (AIMs, based on high values) for Indo-European, sub-Saharan African, Native American, and East Asian biogeographical ancestry (BGA; Shriver et al. The second parent has a non-mutated HERC2 allele but does not have the coding for brown eyes in the OCA2 gene. For example, OCA2, AIM, DCT, and TYRP1 harbored haplotypes both positively associated with blue irises and negatively associated with brown irises (OCA2 haplotypes 1, 37, 38, 42; AIM haplotype 1; DCT haplotype 2; and TYRP1 haplotype 1; Table 3). Frequency of the minor allele and the major and minor allele nucleotide. (2000). When this work is more fully developed, it may be possible to assign an iris color to an individual sample with reasonable certainty, and surely in this case the results herein will have some tangible value for the field of forensic science. If you exhibit the dominant phenotype, use a dash to represent the second allele. The range in eye color, from blue to hazel to brown (see figure one), depends on the level of melanin pigment stored in the melanosome "packets" in the melanocytes of the iris. Box N F, Duffy D L, Irving R E, Russell A, Chen W et al. Agonist color refers to the color with which the sequence is positively associated. When there is too little pigment to produce a strong blue color, the red reflections interact with the small amount of blue, producing a violet color.3, The biological process for producing melanin, melanogenesis, involves numerous protein interactions. Depending on how little pigment the melanocytes produce, albinism causes red or violet eyes. (2002) recently described two OCA2 coding changes associated with darker iris colors. Blue Iris (non-pigmented) MG-3: Jeremy has attached earlobes and pigmented irises. Half of the associated SNPs were located on chromosome 15, which corresponds with results that others have previously obtained from linkage analysis. In the presence of cysteine, the reaction will proceed to form pheomelanin. 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The chromosomal distribution of the SNPs that were significantly associated in a marginal sense was found to be independent of the distribution of SNPs actually surveyed, indicating that the associations were not merely a function of SNP sampling and the same was true for the distribution of all the SNPs shown in Table 2 (data not shown). In all, 27 SNPs were significantly associated with iris pigmentation using at least one of the four criteria, and we refer to these as marginally associated. Although cysteine is not an essential amino acid and its deficiency rarely occurs, the lack of it halts the production of pheomelanin. .. 2003). These genes are of the greatest importance for eye color.9, 10, 11, Numerous ubiquitin ligases are coded for throughout the body. Tyrosinase (TYR), the enzyme responsible for pigment production in the body, starts the synthesis of both types of melanin by catalyzing a reaction between tyrosine and dopa, forming dopaquinone. This test showed that each of our 851 Caucasian samples was of majority Indo-European BGA, and although 58% of the samples were of significant (>4%) non-Indo-European BGA admixture, there was no correlation among low levels (<33%) of East Asian, sub-Saharan African, or Native American admixture and iris colors. Although most TYR-negative OCA patients are completely depigmented, dark-iris albino mice (C44H) and their human type IB oculocutaneous counterparts exhibit a lack of pigment in all tissues except for the iris (Schmidt and Beermann 1994).
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