DNA Sequence Evolution with Neighbor-Dependent Mutation

Details DNA Sequence Evolution with Neighbor-Dependent Mutation DNA Sequence Evolution with Neighbor-Dependent Mutation

2001-12-12

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0112029v2

RECOMB 2002, Proceedings of the 6th Annual International Conference on Computational Biology (2002) p. 32-38

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Biological Physics

11 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in RECOMB 2002

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We introduce a model of DNA sequence evolution which can account for biases in mutation rates that depend on the identity of the neighboring bases. An analytic solution for this class of non-equilibrium models is developed by adopting well-known methods of nonlinear dynamics. Results are presented for the CpG-methylation-deamination process which dominates point substitutions in vertebrates. The dinucleotide frequencies generated by the model (using empirically obtained mutation rates) match the overall pattern observed in non-coding DNA. A web-based tool has been constructed to compute single- and dinucleotide frequencies for arbitrary neighbor-dependent mutation rates. Alsoprovided is the backward procedure to infer the mutation rates using maximum likelihood analysis given the observed single- and dinucleotide frequencies. Reasonable estimates of the mutation rates can be obtained very efficiently, using generic non-coding DNA sequences as input, after masking outlong homonucleotide subsequences. Our method is much more convenient and versatile to use than the traditional method of deducing mutation rates by counting mutation events in carefully chosen sequences. More generally, our approach provides a more realistic but still tractable description of non-coding genomic DNA, and may be used as a null model for various sequence analysis applications.

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