Variations in Substitution Rate in Human and Mouse Genomes

Details Variations in Substitution Rate in Human and Mouse Genomes Variations in Substitution Rate in Human and Mouse Genomes

2004-03-31

arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0403044v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Genomics

4 pages, 3 Figs

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.208102

We present a method to quantify spatial fluctuations of the substitution rate on different length scales throughout genomes of eukaryotes. The fluctuations on large length scales are found to be predominantly a consequence of a coarse-graining effect of fluctuations on shorter length scales. This is verified for both the mouse and the human genome. We also found that both species show similar standard deviation of fluctuations even though their mean substitution rate differs by a factor of two. Our method furthermore allows to determine time-resolved substitution rate maps from which we can compute auto-correlation functions in order to quantify how fast the spatial fluctuations in substitution rate change in time.

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