Biology – Quantitative Biology – Genomics
Scientific paper
2009-09-17
BMC Bioinformatics, 10(suppl 1), S66 (2009)
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Genomics
Scientific paper
{\bf Background}: Several features are known to correlate with the GC-content in the human genome, including recombination rate, gene density and distance to telomere. However, by testing for pairwise correlation only, it is impossible to distinguish direct associations from indirect ones and to distinguish between causes and effects. {\bf Results}: We use partial correlations to construct partially directed graphs for the following four variables: GC-content, recombination rate, exon density and distance-to-telomere. Recombination rate and exon density are unconditionally uncorrelated, but become inversely correlated by conditioning on GC-content. This pattern indicates a model where recombination rate and exon density are two independent causes of GC-content variation. {\bf Conclusions}: Causal inference and graphical models are useful methods to understand genome evolution and the mechanisms of isochore evolution in the human genome.
Freudengerb Jan
Li Wentian
Wang Mingyi
Yang Yaning
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