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Distributions of Dimeric Tandem Repeats in Non-coding and Coding DNA Sequences

✍ Scribed by NIKOLAY V. DOKHOLYAN; SERGEY V. BULDYREV; SHLOMO HAVLIN; H.EUGENE STANLEY

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
221 KB
Volume
202
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-5193

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✦ Synopsis

We study the length distribution functions for the 16 possible distinct dimeric tandem repeats in DNA sequences of diverse taxonomic partitions of GenBank (known human and mouse genomes, and complete genomes of Caenorhabditis elegans and yeast). For coding DNA, we find that all 16 distribution functions are exponential. For non-coding DNA, the distribution functions for most of the dimeric repeats have surprisingly long tails, that fit a power-law function. We hypothesize that: (i) the exponential distributions of dimeric repeats in protein coding sequences indicate strong evolutionary pressure against tandem repeat expansion in coding DNA sequences; and (ii) long tails in the distributions of dimers in non-coding DNA may be a result of various mutational mechanisms. These long, non-exponential tails in the distribution of dimeric repeats in non-coding DNA are hypothesized to be due to the higher tolerance of non-coding DNA to mutations. By comparing genomes of various phylogenetic types of organisms, we find that the shapes of the distributions are not universal, but rather depend on the specific class of species and the type of a dimer.

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