The statistical correlation of nucleotides in protein-coding DNA sequences
- 1 May 1991
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
- Vol. 53 (3) , 345-353
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02460722
Abstract
The statistical correlation of nucleotides in a DNA sequence is described by a set of redundanciesD 1,D 2,D 3,... By calculation of {D n} of 2341 coding regions of nucleic acid sequences it is demonstrated that about 2/3 of sequences has correlation length ≤2, 10% of sequences—correlation with 3-periodicity and others—long range aperiodic correlations. The implications of the results from the interactions of random mutation and natural selection are discussed briefly.Keywords
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