Repeats and correlations in human DNA sequences

Holste, D., Grosse, I., Beirer, S., Schieg, P., Herzel, H. (June 2003) Repeats and correlations in human DNA sequences. Physical Review E, 67 (6). ISSN 1063-651X

Abstract

We study the nucleotide-nucleotide mutual information function I(k) of the DNA sequences of the three completely sequenced human chromosomes 20, 21, and 22. We find in each human chromosome (i) the absence of the k=3 base pair (bp) sequence periodicity characteristic for protein coding regions, (ii) the absence of the k=10-11 bp sequence periodicity characteristic for both protein secondary structure and DNA bendability, and (iii) the presence of significant statistical dependencies at about k=135 bp and at about k=165 bp. We investigate to which degree the density and composition of interspersed repeats might explain these observed statistical patterns in all three human chromosomes. We use simple stochastic models to substitute known interspersed repeats and find by numerical studies that (iv) the presence of interspersed repeats dominates short-range correlations as measured by I(k) on the scale of several hundred base pairs in human chromosomes 20, 21, and 22. On the other hand, we find that (v) interspersed repeats contribute only weakly to long-range correlations due to the clustering of highly abundant Alu repeats.

Item Type: Paper
Uncontrolled Keywords: LONG-RANGE CORRELATIONS PROTEIN CODING REGIONS HUMAN GENOME NONCODING DNA COMPOSITIONAL HETEROGENEITY TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS INTERSPERSED REPEATS MUTUAL INFORMATION MAMMALIAN GENOMES ALU REPEATS
Subjects: bioinformatics
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > genomes
CSHL Authors:
Communities: CSHL labs > Zhang lab
Depositing User: Matt Covey
Date: June 2003
Date Deposited: 27 Mar 2013 18:53
Last Modified: 27 Mar 2013 18:53
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URI: https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/28030

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