Understanding long-range correlations in DNA sequences

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DOI10.1016/0167-2789(94)90294-1zbMATH Open0858.92025arXivchao-dyn/9403002OpenAlexW1972753913MaRDI QIDQ1817056FDOQ1817056


Authors: Wentian Li, Thomas G. Marr, Kunihiko Kaneko Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 31 March 1997

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we review the literature on statistical long-range correlation in DNA sequences. We examine the current evidence for these correlations, and conclude that a mixture of many length scales (including some relatively long ones) in DNA sequences is responsible for the observed 1/f-like spectral component. We note the complexity of the correlation structure in DNA sequences. The observed complexity often makes it hard, or impossible, to decompose the sequence into a few statistically stationary regions. We suggest that, based on the complexity of DNA sequences, a fruitful approach to understand long-range correlation is to model duplication, and other rearrangement processes, in DNA sequences. One model, called ``expansion-modification system", contains only point duplication and point mutation. Though simplistic, this model is able to generate sequences with 1/f spectra. We emphasize the importance of DNA duplication in its contribution to the observed long-range correlation in DNA sequences.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9403002




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