Abstract
Previous studies of the Hpa I cleavage site-sickle cell hemoglobin gene linkage in various African populations suggested that the sickle gene arose independently more than once. In the present study we have performed restriction endonuclease haplotype analysis for the beta-globin-like gene cluster from four separate geographic areas in Africa, all of which possess the sickle gene. In Benin (Central West Africa) and Algeria (Arab North Africa) all chromosomes carrying the sickle gene possess an identical haplotype as defined by 11 different polymorphic restriction endonuclease sites within the 60-kilobase region of the beta-globin-like gene cluster. In the Central African Republic (Bantu-speaking Africa) and in Senegal (Atlantic West Africa) a very large proportion of the sickle gene chromosomes were associated with a haplotype specific for each country. Thus, three different haplotypes are shown to be associated with the sickle gene in Africa, and each is present at a very high frequency in geographically separate regions. Since the three haplotypes differ from each other by at least three sites residing both 5' and 3' to a putative hot spot for recombination, it is most likely that the sickle gene arose at least three times on separate preexisting chromosomal haplotypes. This may have implications for a better understanding of the variable nature of the expression of sickle cell anemia, because clinically relevant sequences (for example, gamma-globin gene regulatory sequences responsive to anemia) might be linked polymorphically to these haplotypes.
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