Biology – Quantitative Biology – Quantitative Methods
Scientific paper
2006-10-04
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40, 4339 (2007)
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Quantitative Methods
14 pages, 4 figures; version to appear in J. Phys. A
Scientific paper
10.1088/1751-8113/40/16/006
Canalization of genetic regulatory networks has been argued to be favored by evolutionary processes due to the stability that it can confer to phenotype expression. We explore whether a significant amount of canalization and partial canalization can arise in purely random networks in the absence of evolutionary pressures. We use a mapping of the Boolean functions in the Kauffman N-K model for genetic regulatory networks onto a k-dimensional Ising hypercube to show that the functions can be divided into different classes strictly due to geometrical constraints. The classes can be counted and their properties determined using results from group theory and isomer chemistry. We demonstrate that partially canalized functions completely dominate all possible Boolean functions, particularly for higher k. This indicates that partial canalization is extremely common, even in randomly chosen networks, and has implications for how much information can be obtained in experiments on native state genetic regulatory networks.
Bassler Kevin E.
Olson Reichhardt C. J.
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