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Molecular Biology and Evolution 19:320-335 (2002)
© 2002 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

Chorionic Gonadotropin Has a Recent Origin Within Primates and an Evolutionary History of Selection

Glenn A. Maston and Maryellen Ruvolo

Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Chorionic gonadotropin (CG) is a critical signal in establishing pregnancy in humans and some other primates, but this placentally expressed hormone has not been found in other mammalian orders. The gene for one of its two subunits (CG ß subunit [CGß]) arose by duplication from the luteinizing hormone ß subunit gene (LHß), present in all mammals tested. In this study, 14 primate and related mammalian species were examined by Southern blotting and DNA sequencing to determine where in mammalian phylogeny the CGß gene originated. Bats (order Chiroptera), flying lemur (order Dermoptera), strepsirrhine primates, and tarsiers do not have a CGß gene, although they possess one copy of the LHß gene. The CGß gene first arose in the common ancestor of the anthropoid primates (New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, apes, and humans), after the anthropoids diverged from tarsiers. At least two subsequent duplication events occurred in the catarrhine primates, all of which possess multiple CGß copies. The LHß-CGß family of genes has undergone frequent gene conversion among the catarrhines, as well as periods of strong positive selection in the New World monkeys (platyrrhines). In addition, newly generated DNA sequences from the promoter of the CG alpha subunit gene indicate that platyrrhine monkeys use a different mechanism of alpha gene expression control than that found in catarrhines.


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