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Mol. Biol. Evol. 20(11):1887-1896. 2003
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg204
© 2003 by the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. ISSN: 0737-4038

Distinct Changes of Genomic Biases in Nucleotide Substitution at the Time of Mammalian Radiation

Peter F. Arndt*,{dagger},, Dmitri A. Petrov{ddagger} and Terence Hwa*

* Physics Department and Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California at San Diego
{dagger} Institute for Theoretical Physics, Cologne University, Cologne, Germany
{ddagger} Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University

E-mail: peter.arndt{at}uni-koeln.de.

Differences in the regional substitution patterns in the human genome created patterns of large-scale variation of base composition known as genomic isochores. To gain insight into the origin of the genomic isochores, we develop a maximum-likelihood approach to determine the history of substitution patterns in the human genome. This approach utilizes the vast amount of repetitive sequence deposited in the human genome over the past approximately 250 Myr. Using this approach, we estimate the frequencies of seven types of substitutions: the four transversions, two transitions, and the methyl-assisted transition of cytosine in CpG. Comparing substitutional patterns in repetitive elements of various ages, we reconstruct the history of the base-substitutional process in the different isochores for the past 250 Myr. At around 90 MYA (around the time of the mammalian radiation), we find an abrupt fourfold to eightfold increase of the cytosine transition rate in CpG pairs compared with that of the reptilian ancestor. Further analysis of nucleotide substitutions in regions with different GC content reveals concurrent changes in the substitutional patterns. Although the substitutional pattern was dependent on the regional GC content in such ways that it preserved the regional GC content before the mammalian radiation, it lost this dependence afterward. The substitutional pattern changed from an isochore-preserving to an isochore-degrading one. We conclude that isochores have been established before the radiation of the eutherian mammals and have been subject to the process of homogenization since then.

Key Words: nucleotide substitution • CpG-methylation • repetitive elements • GC content


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